The military on Wednesday accused communist rebels of firing on small-scale miners in Montevista town, Compostela Valley province.
No one was hurt in the incident, which happened on Monday.
Colonel Buenaventura Pascual, 1003rd Brigade commander, said about 10 rebels fired at 40 workers of a small-scale mining firm in Sitio Bagtok, Barangay San Vicente.
Pascual condemned the incident and accused the NPA of violating the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law by attacking civilians.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/59646/military-accuses-npa-of-harassing-compostela-valley-small-miners
The miners' must have been late paying their "revolutionary taxes," a euphemism for plain extortion. Now-a-days most NPA units seem to function more like a Mafia protection racket than a revolutionary organization.
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