“It’s a fundamental question for business: is it good to do business in the mountains? Do we give in to them? it’s a reality that has to be talked openly, since the NPA is more active now in Region 11, notwithstanding the statements from the AFP” Mayor Duterte said.
Five Philippine Red Cross volunteers were injured here Friday in an exploding shell believed fired from a rifle, in a new twist in the stand-down between government security forces and armed followers of the Moro National Liberation Front.
(NPA’s Rigoberto) But Sanchez said the military’s statement is “pure invention” saying that the NPA only used “guerrilla warfare weapons, such as but not limited to, command-detonated explosives made up of traditional, non-biologically toxic ingredients.”
Two days after the Philippine government called for an end to violence and a militant lawmaker urged for the resumption of peace negotiations with communist rebels, seven government troops were hurt by explosives purportedly detonated by the New People’s Army at dawn Tuesday in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley.
By EARL O. CONDEZA Davao Today Paquibato District, Davao City – “Kami sa gobyerno, dili mi dapat magsarado tanan, magbilin…
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By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
In a statement, Ka Sandawa, spokesperson of the NPA’s Zenaida Beron Command said a “military tribunal” meted out the standing order against Paulino ‘Jun’ Landim, Jr. last March 2 for his participation as “a military spy.”
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
Davao Today
The NPA’s ComVal North Davao South Agusan Sub-regional Command said a four-day suspension of military offensives will take effect Tuesday, February 19 to 22 in the towns of Kapalong, San Isidro, Asuncion and New Corella in Davao del Norte and in Laak, Compostela Valley.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
The ceasefire coverage, Rigoberto F. Sanchez, spokesman of the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command-Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command said, is extended to other parts of their regional jurisdiction which are not directly hit by typhoon Pablo to help address the said crisis especially in the more than 24 towns in Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental where over 33 percent of its “revolutionary forces” live and over a million of peasants, workers, lumads and ordinary poor are affected.
By DANILDA L. FUSILERO
Davao Today
On Wednesday, Katribu, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas, Kabataan Party-list, women’s organization Gabriela and Mapa community leaders representing the evacuees joined together to stage a picket-rally in front of the municipal hall of Magpet and called for the immediate pull-out of all military troops in the municipality.
