Formal talks to negotiate substantive reforms must not be preconditioned and negated by protracted ceasefire

The GRP panel statement of December 3, 2008 on the informal talks held in Oslo on November 28-30, 2008 is highly deceptive, misleading and duplicitous. The GRP panel preconditioned the…

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Captured soldier Cammayo assures family in NPA video

DAVAO CITY?Captured soldier Vicente Cammayo assured his wife and family he is ?treated well? in a video sent by Communist New People?s Army (NPA) guerrillas to media on Sunday, almost a month after the soldier?s 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 town?s barangay Casoon in Compostela Valley province.

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