July 6, 2008
FACING THE MEDIA. Military police officials field questions from members of the Davao City media during a recent edition of the PNP/AFP Press Corps’ weekly media conference at the headquarters of Task Force Davao. JIM TAN NUEVO
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NPA VOWS MORE ATTACKS VS. AFP; DENIES HAND IN COMPOSTELA VALLEY GRENADE BLAST
July 6, 2008The communist New People’s Army (NPA) owned up the raid on a town hall in Davao Oriental, but fingered the military in a grenade blast in Nabunturan, Compostela Valley province that killed 3 people and wounded 12 others last week.
“Red fighters of the 3rd Pulang Bagani Company of the Merardo Arce Command-New People’s Army [...]
DAVAO REGION ON RED ALERT AS COMMUNIST REBELS INTENSIFY ATTACKS
July 4, 2008NPAs intensify attacks; 3 killed , 14 wounded
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The military and police yesterday hoisted a red alert over Region Eleven as three people were killed and 13 others were wounded in a new wave of attacks by the communist New People’s Army rebels in the region in a span [...]
4 killed, 11 wounded in grenade attack by communist rebels in Southern Philippines
July 3, 2008 At least four men were killed and 11 others wounded when a grenade exploded on Thursday at a bakery in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said, blaming Maoist-led rebels for the attack.
Hours later, another group of communist New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas raided a town hall in a nearby province on the [...]
Retired trooper killed by NPAs?
June 26, 2008Military checking if Manero liquidated
The military here are checking reports a retired trooper seized by communist rebels last month had been terminated. We are still verifying this report, said Major Arman Rico, spokesman of the AFP Eastern Mindanao Command. Rico admits the military is clueless about the whereabouts of MSgt. Jose Manero, but the [...]
Tribal people wage war vs. communist rebels
June 14, 2008The indigenous peoples in Mindanao declared this week a full-blown war against the communist New People’s Army (NPA), in a ceremony in Davao City organized by the Armed Forces of the Philippines Eastern Mindanao Command (AFP-EastMinCom).
Led by Datu Joel Onad, chair of the Mindanao Indigenous Peoples Conference for Peace and Development (MIPCPD), tribal leaders from [...]
Top NPA in Davao wounded
June 14, 2008Parago hurt, 3 others killed
The top leader of communist movement in Southern Mindanao has been wounded in a clash with military, according to a military official.
Leonardo Pitao alias Parago, head of the Pulang Bagani Command of the New Peoples Army Southern Mindanao Regional Committee (NPA-SMRC), as military troopers engaged his band in a [...]
AFP: Declare Karapatan as ‘persona non grata’
June 5, 2008 A military spokesman in Southern Mindanao said Dabawenyos could learn a lesson from what village officials in a town in Negros Occidental who banned militant groups from entering their village.
“We should learn from what the barangay officials and residents of Linantuyan, Guiholngan in Negros Occidental did to the self-proclaimed human rights group [...]
Misuari followers in Davao City for peace summit, caravan
May 23, 2008Thousands of members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) are in Davao City for a two-day summit today and Peace Caravan that would take off tomorrow.
The MNLF forces from all over Mindanao started to arrive here Thursday night. Dabawenyos, used to seeing heavily-armed elements of Task Force Davao on street patrol, were mildy amused at the sight of unarmed elements [...]
Manero: I have shunned violence
May 20, 2008I HAVE SHUNNED VIOLENCE. Norberto Manero, the head of the dreaded Ilaga vigilante group in Tulonan, North Cotabato imprisoned for the murder of Fr. Tulio Favali in 1985, pleads for the release of his brother seized by New Peoples Army rebels. He disowned reports of link to the killing of a peasant leader in Davao [...]
