CPP: Massacre of B'laan family perpetrated by Aquino regime under Oplan Bayanihan--CPP

From the CPP Website (Oct 23): Massacre of B'laan family perpetrated by Aquino regime under Oplan Bayanihan--CPP

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Aquino regime in the strongest possible terms for the heinous massacre of pregnant mother Jovy Malid-Capion and her two sons, age 13 and 8, by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). On the morning of October 18, fascist soldiers of the 27th IB indiscriminately strafed the Capion household in Barangay Kiblawis, Kiblawan, Davao del Sur and justified its execrable act by claiming that Capion’s husband Daguil, was an “armed bandit.” The couple’s five-year old daughter was wounded in the attack.
The CPP expresses its deepest sympathies to the Capion family as well as to the B’laan tribe to which they belong. The massacre of the Capion family was carried out by the Aquino regime’s armed men at the behest of the Xstrata-SMI mining company. Over the past decade, a number of B’laan tribespeople have been victims of extrajudicial killings and other abuses of human rights by state agents. The B’laan have been actively opposing the entry of the Xstrata-SMI gold and copper mining operations in Sitio Bong Mal, Kiblawis which have displaced the lumad communities from their ancestral lands and caused grave destruction to the environment and the people’s livelihood. The B’laan have been waging armed resistance against Xstrata-SMI through their Red Pangayaw armed militias, to which Daguil Capion belongs....

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/massacre-of-b-laan-family-perpetrated-by-aquino-regime-under-oplan-bayanihan-cpp