From the Philippine News Agency (Jan 30): La Castellana ambush a cover-up of
NPA’s dwindling strength- PA
Military officials said the Sunday ambush in La Castellana, Negros Occidental,
where nine people were killed and six were wounded, was the New People's Army's
(NPA) way of showing that it was still a force to reckon with despite its
dwindling strength.
Capt. Ryan Cayton, deputy spokesperson of 3rd Infantry Division of the
Philippine Army based in Camp Peralta in Jamindan, Capiz, said the La Castellana
carnage was just a cover-up of its already weakening forces and desperate armed
struggle.
Earlier, Police Regional Office Western Visayas (PRO6) regional director
Police C/Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr. also called on government agencies concerned,
particularly the Commission on Human Rights (CHR), to extend help in the pursuit
of justice.
Cruz said the rebels inhumanity was a blatant and clear violation of human
rights for the brutal killing of victims despite they begged for their lives.
Meanwhile, latest information reaching Iloilo City on Wednesday said the
wounded victims including the two police officers were already stable.
Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office OIC director Senior Supt.
Celestino Guara, who also head the Task Force La Castellana investigating the
bloody incident, said PO2 Jeffrey Alvarez and PO3 Constantino Villegas have been
allowed by the hospital’s attending physicians to leave as outpatients after
they were given immediate medical treatment for the gunshot wounds on their
legs.
Other wounded victims identified as Jason Oximar, Victoriano Donasco, Jamil
Roma, Bonifacio Bayate, Cristituto Perolino, Jerry Lacuedo, Roger Behar and
Antonio Tornea were also reported in stable condition at the Western Visayas
Regional Hospital in Bacolod City.
Guara said of the wounded civilians presently confined in the said hospital,
four were minors, two of whom has already been declared outpatients.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=492423
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