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==Rebel atrocities claim two children’s lives== | |||
*Source: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/news/regions/19140-rebel-atrocities-claim-two-childrens-lives | |||
*Wednesday, March 14, 2012 | |||
:by William B. Depasupil, Reporter | |||
TWO children, age six and five years old, were the recent victims of the communist New People’s Army’s (NPA) alleged atrocities and total disregard of the safety and welfare | |||
of innocent civilians, according to a military spokesman. | |||
Captain Reylan Java, spokesman of the Army’s 3rd Infantry (Spearhead) Division (ID) identified the bomb explosion victims as Rodelyn Aguirre, 6, and her five-year old sister, Roda. | |||
Java said Rodelyn died on the spot while Roda was wounded. | |||
The explosion occurred Sunday at the house of the Rodas in Brgy . Tacayan, Tapaz, Capiz, a known bailiwick of the leftist rebels. | |||
Based on initial report, the explosion was caused by the lapses in the process of assembling of the improvised explosive device (IED) by the members of the NPA. | |||
Reports reaching the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AF) high command in Camp Aguinaldo also showed that at least two unidentified members of the NPA were also seriously wounded during the explosion as revealed by the civilian witnesses. | |||
Java further said that the IED is to be used by the rebels for their terrorist activities in Capiz and other parts of Panay. | |||
Last February 20, the insurgents used IED to bomb the La Casa Transloading Station of Sugarcane Central in Brgy Mianay, Sigma, Capiz for failure to give in to their demand for money. | |||
On August 2011, the NPA members also laid IED when they ambushed the army personnel belonging to the 61st Infantry Battalion in Brgy Switch, Tapaz, Capiz. | |||
They also set up two IEDs near the Igcabugao Elementary School in Igbaras, Iloilo sometime March of 2010 but were recovered by army personnel conducting peace and development works. | |||
Based on military record, a total of seven IEDs were recovered by the 82nd Infantry Battalion in various NPA encampments in Igbaras and Miagao, both in Iloilo province, on 2009. | |||
Earlier, the AFP, through the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) peace negotiating panel, filed a complaint against the NPA’s continued use of IEDs and landmines in its operations in violation of the agreement signed by the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). | |||
The use of land mines and IED are prohibited under the Comprehensvie Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL). | |||
The CARHRIHL is the first of four agreements in the substantive agenda of the peace negotiations between the GRP and the NDF. | |||
Major General Jose Mabanta, Commander of the 3rd ID, based in Camp Peralta, Jamindan, Capiz, appealed to the leadership of the NPA to spare the children from harm and stay away from the communities that choose to live in peace. | |||
“The four decades of armed struggle have only brought senseless deaths and miseries to the lives of innocent civilians,” Mabanta stressed, adding that said social problems in our country can easily be solved in an environment of peace rather than through armed struggle. | |||
In a related development, the military also reported that another IED explosion incident happened yesterday in Tacurong City, Sultan Kudarat causing injuries to ice drop vendor Raymundo Echona and damage to a passenger bus. | |||
Brig. Gen. Manuel Luis Ochotorena, deputy commander and spokesman of the 6th ID, said that initial investigation the target of said bombing was the Rural Bus Co. for its refusal to give in to an extortion demand by a still unidentified group. | |||
==Ex-union brings upland folks water, sense of achievement== | ==Ex-union brings upland folks water, sense of achievement== | ||
*Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2012/03/10/ex-union-brings-upland-folks-water-sense-achievement-210467 | *Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/cebu/local-news/2012/03/10/ex-union-brings-upland-folks-water-sense-achievement-210467 | ||
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