Five Lumad members of the New People's Army (NPA)
voluntarily surrendered to units of the Davao City-based 10th Infantry Division
last Oct. 20 to 23.
Capt. Rhyan Batchar, 10th Infantry Division public affairs
office chief, identified the Lumad rebels through their aliases as Idol, Ian,
Dindin, John-John and Angie.
Batchar said Idol, a squad leader under the NPA Guerilla
Front (GF)-73 from Lake Sebu, South Cotabato surrendered to the troops of 27th
Infantry Battalion last Oct. 20.
While Ian, a team leader under the NPA GF-71 from Alabel,
Sarangani was accompanied by a barangay kagawad to soldiers of 73IB in Malita,
Davao del Sur also on Oct. 20.
Dindin, a resident from Montevista, Compostela
Valley province and a squad leader
under the NPA GF-25 surrendered to the troops of 10th Civil Military Operations
Battalion on Oct. 21 in Tagum
City
John-john, a resident of Malita, Davao Del Sur and a team
leader under the NPA GF-73 surrendered to 73rd Infantry Battalion through the
efforts of a barangay kagawad in the same municipality.
Anjie from Alabel, Sarangani, who is eight-months pregnant,
belongs to a NPA squad under GF-71 and wife of Ian, surrendered to troops of
73rd Infantry Battalion in Malita, Davao Del Sur last Oct. 23 through the
efforts of a barangay captain and other barangay officials in the said
municipality.
Idol is from the Tiboli tribe while John-john is from the
Tagakaulo tribe. Dindin is from the Mandaya tribe while Ian and Anjie are
B'laans.
These former NPA rebels returned to the folds of the law due
to the hardships they have experienced and unfulfilled promises to them and
their families while with the armed group.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=819060
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