From the Mindanao Examiner (Dec 13): NPA rebels ambush troops aiding typhoon victims in
Philippines
Communist rebels on Thursday attacked government troops sent to deliver relief
goods to typhoon victims in Davao del Norte province in the southern
Philippines, officials said. Officials said New People’s Army opened fire
on members of the 60th Infantry Battalion in the village of Santo Nino in
Talaingod town. “Members of 60th Infantry Battalion were fired upon at the
outreach station in the village,” said Lt. Col. Lyndon Paniza, a spokesman for
the 10th Infantry Division. Paniza did not say if there were casualties
in the ambush, but claimed the attack occurred a day during a self-imposed
cease-fire by the NPA. He said the rebels declared a holiday truce from December
5 to January 3, but he branded the NPA cease-fire as propaganda. “We all
know that their promise of truce is nothing but a sugar coated lie to make them
look like Good Samaritans. It is a mere façade to cloak their real identity as
criminals. The rebel group is exploiting the distraught situation of the victims
as propaganda and nothing else.” “This incident only manifests their
insincerity in helping the people especially those badly affected residents. If
we are on relief mission mode, then they are on business as usual mode without
considering that the assault hampered our relief efforts,” Paniza
said. He said just recently, rebels also abducted two children in San
Isidro town after failing to kill their father who is a government soldier.
There was no immediate statement from the rebels who are fighting for
decades now for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country.
http://mindanaoexaminer.com/news.php?news_id=20121213025704
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