DAVAO CITY – Communist rebels honoured
two of its fighters who were killed in clash with government troops in Davao
Oriental’s Cateel town in southern Philippines. One soldier was slain and 3
others wounded in the fighting, said the New People’s Army rebels on Thursday.
Roel Agustin II, a rebel spokesman,
said NPA forces attacked military posts and overran them in the village of
Aliwagwag. The weekend raid, he said, caught the soldiers of the 67th
and 72nd infantry battalions by surprised.
“An M14 automatic rifle and several
military gears were seized by Red fighters while one enemy was killed and three
others were wounded during the firefight. Two Red fighters, including Patrick
Simeon, were martyred during the engagement,” he said.
The 20-year old Simeon was a youth
activist in Metro Manila before he joined the NPA in 2014, Agustin said. “The
NPA in southern Mindanao region and the revolutionary movement in the region
confer highest honours to the two Red fighters who had bravely given their
lives to the cause of the national democratic struggle,” he said.
Agustin said the raid was a punishment
against the soldiers for their alleged human rights violations. He also
assailed the provincial government’s tourism program in the town that displaced
hundreds of poor families and natives from the area to pave the way for the
development of Aliwagwag Falls.
“It has displaced hundreds of
peasant and Lumad families in Aliwagwag and adjacent villages in the towns of
Cateel and nearby Compostela. In the name of the deceitful development program,
farms and communities were adversely affected to give way to the privatized tourist
destination spots,” he said.
There was no immediate statement
from the military on Agustin’s allegations. The NPA has been fighting for
decades for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao
Examiner)
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