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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)
By GERMELINA A. LACORTE | Davao Today
People in the Visayas and Luzon are joining calls to stop the war in Mindanao after the peace caravan that traveled the whole stretch of the archipelago for seven days had open their eyes to understand the conflict for the first time, Gus Miclat, the executive director of IID, said upon the return of the caravan here.
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