From the Sun Star (May 21): NPA commander surrenders in Kalinga
A unit commander of the communist New People's Army (NPA), wanted by a local criminal court for multiple counts of murder and robbery, surrendered to police authorities last Sunday.
In a statement released Monday, provincial police chief Froilan Perez identified the rebel leader as Benigno Conggas Cagwayan, 48, who used the aliases Dukang, Mel, and Garcia.
Cagwayan, who is the commander of the NPA's 2nd Larangan Yunit Guerilya operating in Kalinga province, has six warrants of arrest for double murder, frustrated murder, three counts of murder, and robbery with violence against Cagwan.
He carried a P500,000 bounty on his head, Perez said.
Cordillera police chief Benjamin Magalong believed that Cagwans' surrender significantly weakened the force of the NPA in the region.
"It is an indication that even ranking leaders don't believe of the cause and the violent means the CPP-NDF-NPA [Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front-NPA) had been employing against the government for decades," he said.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/2013/05/21/npa-commander-surrenders-kalinga-283468
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