The New People’s Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines, released the two soldiers who were held captive for almost 11 weeks somewhere in Matanao town in Davao del Sur on Wednesday.
The Communist Party of the Philippines called the military operations against a score of Abu Sayyaf members in the tourist province of Bohol an “overkill.”
The “people’s court” of the National Democratic Front in Southern Mindanao indicted former President Benigno Aquino III, North Cotabato Gov. Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North Cotabato Representative Nancy Catamco, for “crimes against humanity” following the death of two farmers during the Kidapawan bloody dispersal of 6, 000 Lumad and farmers in April, last year.
The head of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Valencia City in Bukidnon clarified Thursday that the school allegedly burned by the New People’s Army turned out to be caused a faulty electrical wiring.
Members of revolutionary youth organizations staged a lightning rally along the intersection of Elpidio Quirino Avenue and Magallanes Street here to mark the 48th founding anniversary of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.