By the Center for People Empowerment in Governance | Davao Today
With all remaining options including attempts at another Cha-Cha diminishing the whole nation should brace for some extreme measures being resorted to in 2009.
Convenors of Interfaith Movement for Peace and the Release of Cammayo and Tumol (IMPACT) welcome 1Lt. Vicente Cammayo (right) during his release on Jan. 6. Escorted by the New People’s Army custodial force and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Cammayo was released in Loreto, Agusan del Sur, after being held as “prisoner of war” for almost two months. According to the Merardo Arce Command of the NPA, Cammayo was the team leader of the 11th company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion of the AFP who surrendered on Nov. 7 last year when his unit was ambushed by the NPA in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. His release, according to the NPA regional command, is a “gesture of goodwill” in celebration of the Communist Party of the Philippines’s 40th anniversary. (davaotoday.com photos by Barry Ohaylan)
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DAVAO CITYCaptured soldier Vicente Cammayo assured his wife and family he is treated well in a video sent by Communist New Peoples Army (NPA) guerrillas to media on Sunday, almost a month after the soldiers capture in an ambush in a Monkayo village. Cammayo, the commander of the 11th Company of the 3rd Special Forces Battalion, also said in the video he was not wounded and that he surrendered to the NPA in an encounter in sitio Amagase of Monkayo towns barangay Casoon in Compostela Valley province.
Ma. Luisa Tumol (left), wife of PO3 Eduard Tumol, and Mariel Cammayo (right), wife of Lt. Vicente Cammayo, make the appeal to the New People’s Army in a forum by the Exodus for Justice and Peace, a multi-sectoral group calling for the resumption of peace talks between the government and the NDFP. Communist rebels earlier admitted holding the two soldiers prisoners of war. (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)
