Troops kill 2 NPA rebels, capture camp in Mindanao

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Government troops clashed with communist insurgents and killing 2 gunmen in San Luis town in the southern Philippine province of Agusan del Sur, officials said Tuesday.

Officials said the fighting erupted in Binicalan village after soldiers stormed a hideout of the New People’s Army rebel group. Troops recovered the bodies of the slain rebels and their weapons after the Monday fighting.

There was no report of military casualties, but the government offensive is still continuing in the province, a known NPA lair. The identities of the dead were unknown and the NPA did not release any information on its casualties.

Soldiers also captured the encampment which was being used by rebels as a springboard to launch attacks against military and police targets in the province.

President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military to destroy the rebel group after peace talks collapsed despite repeated attempts to restart negotiations. The communist group had demanded the government to free all rebels jailed across the country before a ceasefire is signed by both sides. (Mindanao Examiner)

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NPA rebels torch lemon farms, clash with militias in South

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The communist insurgent group New People’s Army claimed to have wounded 8 government militias in a clash and destroyed lemon farms and farm equipment owned by wealthy family in southern Philippines, a rebel spokesman said Tuesday.

Omar Ibarra said rebel forces swooped down on the farms owned by Charity Ampong and torched her truck and destroyed an estimated 18 hectares of lemon fields in the village of Balit in Agusan del Sur’s San Luis town on October 4.

Ibarra accused the farm owner of not paying her workers correct wages in accordance with the law and branded Ampong as “despotic landlord.”

“Landlord Charity Ampong owns hundreds of hectares of lemon field in the barangay, yet she only pays impoverish wages to her farm-workers amounting to P250 per day,” he said.

There was no immediate statement from Ampong on the rebel group’s allegations, but Ibarra said fighting erupted the next day after government militias were deployed to hunt down the raiders.

Ibarra said fighting eventually broke out and one rebel, Joel Seguero, was killed by militias. “It was confirmed that 8 members of CAA (Civilian Active Auxiliary) were wounded-in-action. On the other hand, the NPA offered its highest salute to Ka Joel Seguero, who was martyred,” he said.

The military did not release any statement, but the NPA has been fighting for many decades now for the establishment of a separate state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)

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