Wednesday, December 10, 2014

NorCot Army offer 'hand of peace' to NPA this Christmas

From the Philippine News Agency (Dec 10): NorCot Army offer 'hand of peace' to NPA this Christmas

Despite the series of harassment conducted by communist New Peoples’ Army in North Cotabato against the Army and civilians, the military is offering a “hand of peace” this Christmas, an Army official said.

Speaking to a local radio station, Colonel Nilo Vinluan, commander of the 57th Infantry Battalion, appealed to the NPA to silence their guns to allow peaceful Christmas celebrations.

The past days, the communist rebels launched a series of road side bombings that left government forces and civilians either killed or wounded.

Vinluan said like the soldiers, the NPAs are also Filipinos and fighting and killing each other was a nonsense thing.

He made the appeal days after the NPA set off road side bombs that wounded an Army captain and his subordinate.

The NPA is yet to respond to the Army’s invitation.

http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=714569

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.