Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 04:17:38 +0000
PAGADIAN CITY — A local Army commander has credited intensifying civilian-led information drives to shun away from the communist movement for the recent surrender of New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas here.
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 21:50:24 +0000
Opposition lawmakers on Friday warned that imposing martial law in Negros Oriental would only lead to more bloodshed, saying President Duterte’s anti-insurgency campaign had already turned Negros Island into a “killing field.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:35:35 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday ordered the military to give the communist rebels what they deserve as he accused them of being behind the spate of killings in Negros Oriental. Speaking at the Mindanao-wide distribution of land certificates to agrarian reform beneficiaries in Davao City, Duterte blamed the New People’s Army for […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: jvicente| Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 03:06:13 +0000
“Baseless and laced with malice” was how Malacañang described Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares’ claims on state-sponsored killings.
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Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2019 21:24:52 +0000
President Duterte may place Negros Oriental under martial law to quell lawless violence on the island and put an end to the killings
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2019 07:47:06 +0000
More than 100 families from Sitio Duwa-duwa of Barangay Kalilangan here have refused to go back to their homes, one week after fleeing from fighting between Army troops and suspected New People’s Army (NPA) forces.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:07:08 +0000
New People’s Army (NPA) combatants in Southern Luzon are young, most of them in their early 20s, with some coming from universities, according to Lt. Gen. Gilbert Gapay, commander of the Southern Luzon Command (Solcom) of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
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Read moreCredit to Author: acerojano| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 14:59:24 +0000
MANILA, Philippines – Police said Friday that the communist New People’s Army (NPA) could be behind the recent spate of killings in Negros Oriental province in a bid to show the group’s supposed strength to the public and state forces. Col. Raul Tacaca, director of the Negros Oriental Police Provincial Office, told INQUIRER.net that witnesses […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: racosta| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:25:46 +0000
Peace zones invoked by Cordillera elders will be honored as the government brings public services to interior communities whose poverty has been exploited by communist rebels, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., said here on Thursday.
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Credit to Author: jvicente| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 11:35:27 +0000
President Rodrigo Duterte raised to P3 million the bounty for the capture of those behind the brutal killing of four policemen in Negros Oriental.
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