From the Sun Star-Davao (Dec 7): AFP to file charges vs rebels in Agusan attack
THE military is determined to file charges before the Provincial Prosecutor's Office against the members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who attacked an ambulance that killed four civilians and hurt seven others at Sitio Latay in Barangay Marfil, Rosario town in Agusan del Sur last November 30.
Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom) commander Lieutenant General Aurelio B. Baladad said troops belonging to the Army's 4th Infantry Division are already coordinating with the Provincial Government and police in its investigation and filing of appropriate charges against the rebels behind the attack.
Aside from the criminal charges, Baladad said the NPA rebels have been indiscriminately violating the International Humanitarian Law (IHL), the very same law that they are always invoking to be observed and followed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police.
"Yet such attack was just another proof of their true intension not to be truly compliant to IHL and merely use it as propaganda and protection from their criminal activities where the ambush of an ambulance was only a case at point," Baladad said.
Reports earlier revealed that the rebels who attack the ambulance were allegedly under the command of a certain Leonida Belarmino Sanchez, alias Monik or Susay, an NPA's front secretary; Randy Subla, alias Nice; Ariel Conejar Ornales, alias Charlie or Jorlan or Brylle; and Renato Sayasat, alias Friday.
Baladad hit the statement of the National Democratic Front-Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army’s Northeastern Mindanao on the death of the four civilians, which it appeared that it is a mistake to ride any vehicles with government soldiers.
In a statement, the communist movement appealed to civilians not to board any vehicles with government soldiers who are their targets of attack.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/davao/local-news/2014/12/07/afp-file-charges-vs-rebels-agusan-attack-380743
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