Five days before the 46th year anniversary of the Communist Party of the Philippines, its armed wing, the New People’s Army, released its two “prisoners of war” to Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte somewhere in the hinterlands of Montevista, Compostela Valley Province Sunday afternoon.
It will be a merry Christmas, indeed, for the families of the eight prisoners-of-war (POWs) who were captured by the New Peoples’ Army (NPA) from August to December this year as the National Democratic Front of the Philippines ordered their immediate release.
The New People’s Army’s Northern Central Mindanao Command is paving the way for the release of two soldiers they held captive since August this year amidst separate ceasefire declarations of the government and the Communist Party of the Philippines.
Family members appealed to New People’s Army guerrillas to release two Army men they captured on December 2 and held as prisoners-of-war (POW).
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group detained Jordan Reyes Donillo, to whom the military claimed as a New People’s Army commander, who was nabbed Sunday afternoon in a checkpoint at Brgy. Magnaga, Pantukan, Compostela Valley.
Affording services to victims of trafficking for their recovery and reintegration into the society remains unfulfilled by government agencies a group said, Friday.
Multi-sectoral leaders here called on government to open its doors and “be sincere” in pursuing peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front (NDF).
Armed followers of a Moro revolutionary faction were able to penetrate this week into a major military camp in Maguindanao and reportedly confiscated some small weapons from government soldiers, the group said.
Police here filed carnapping charges against an Army sergeant and his companions, including alleged government top crime investigators, after a Pakistani national complained of losing two cars to the carnappers.
An activist who was supposed to join a Human Rights Day rally in Cagayan de Oro City was among those killed in the bomb explosion inside a passenger bus in the central Mindanao province of Bukidnon, on Tuesday.
