More than 20 heavily armed New People’s Army (NPA) rebels wounded a policeman when they ambushed a police patrol in Bontoc,
Police Superintendent Oliver Emodias, director of the Philippine National Police (PNP)
”The encounter happened when we responded to the complaints of the people in Sitio Bantonil, Barangay Dalican, Bontoc, Mountain Province for the alleged rampant revolutionary taxation of an NPA group led by a certain leader ‘Naug-san’. The site was not far from the boundary with Sagada town where two members of the Regional Safety Batallion (RSB) were killed last March 29,” Emodias said.
Bontoc town is some 100 kilometers north of
He narrated that after the first volley of shots, the lawmen tried to exchange fire but have to “prioritize the evacuation of Dagsan to save his life”.
Meanwhile, the RSB aided by other government troopers in the province were able to occupy two NPA training camps in Sagada, Mountain Province but the elusive group of ‘Naugsan’ were no longer in the area.
According to Emodias, the rebel group operating in the area have the advantage of knowing the forested place very well.
However, he said the lawmen will persist to protect the communities in the area from NPA taxation “which in truth so burdensome to the poor villagers.”
Although insurgency in the Cordilleras was almost totally decimated with the help of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CPLA) since 1986, there are die-hard communist NPA rebels who persisted to stay in the far-flung and pocket areas within the boundaries of Abra,
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