NPA takes responsibility for attacks on Bukidnon plantations

From the Manila Bulletin (Feb 2): NPA takes responsibility for attacks on Bukidnon plantations

The communists New People’s Army (NPA) has issued a warning to multi-national companies operating in the province of Bukidnon about the “destructive” expansion of plantation areas for bananas and pineapples, saying that more attacks will be carried out by the rebels in the future.

“The series of NPA-led attacks in several banana and pineapple plantations in Bukidnon late in January this year was carried out to warn multinational companies of their destructive expansions in the area,” said Allan Juanito, spokesperson of the rebels in North Central Mindanao Region in a statement to the media here.

Juanito pointed out that for every hectare bulldozed by the said companies more than 150 tons or 70 dump trucks of soil were being displaced and eroded into streams and rivers.

“This would annihilate every standing tree, grass and other undergrowth on the soil, including even the good insects that would be poisoned by insect sprays and fertilizers,” he added.

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