Soupeod 9,375 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 Quote http://www.manilatimes.net/military-heightens-alert-vs-npa-offensives/359504/ SHARIFF AGUAK, Maguindanao: The Armed Forces of the Philippines have placed all military camps in Central Mindanao, particularly in North and South Cotabato, on heightened alert following intensified offensives by communist rebels on military targets. Advertisements Capt. Silver Belvis, speaking for the 39th Infantry Battalion based in North Cotabato, said New Peoples Army (NPA) hitmen killed an off-duty militiaman belonging to Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) in the communist infested Arakan town. Belvis identified the slain militiaman as Angelito Lamana who was killed in his house in Barangay Tumanding on Wednesday. “He was hog-tied before he was shot dead,” Belvis added. Lamana, assigned at a Cafgu detachment in Salasang area of Barangay Tumanding, was the third member of Cafgu killed since last month. Belvis tagged the assailants of Lamana as the communist rebels under Guerilla Front 53. The NPAs are active in the village and continue to allegedly enforce “protection money and revolutionary taxes” from the residents. On September 20, the rebels ambushed and killed another Cafgu member Joel Batawan in Barangay Santo Niño, also in Arakan. Three days prior, the NPA also shot dead militiaman Jeffrey Bitonio in Barangay Anapolon in the same town. Meanwhile, Senior Supt. Franklin Alberto, South Cotabato provincial police director, said they are looking at the involvement of the NPAs in the murder of Police Officer 2 Charlie Liva in Tupi, South Cotabato last Thursday. Liva was driving his motorcycle en route to General Santos City when gunmen, in separate motorbike, shot him in the head and body along the highway in the town. Earlier, the NPA rebels said it will launch tactical offensives after the Marawi City siege when President Rodrigo Duterte announced that the military will shift to offensives versus the communist rebels particularly in Mindanao. Link to post Share on other sites
RogerDat 3,484 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I read this morning the NPA only has a handful of men, an it is all propaganda. We will see. Link to post Share on other sites
Jim Sibbick 1,037 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 You have posted this in the Philippines safe not safe forum. I think it will make no difference safety wise to foreigners unless you will travel to central Mindanao. On Cebu, Governer Gwen announced a few years ago that the NPA had capitulated. I have not heard anything of the NPA in Cebu province since. My experience with NPA on Leyte is that they take the side of the weak against the unjust. And foreigners should not fear the NPA on Leyte unless they are mistreating Filipinos. Some other islands in the Philippines, foreigners do not have the same experience with NPA and will say stay away from those islands. Link to post Share on other sites
RogerDat 3,484 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 (edited) Edited October 30, 2017 by RogerDat 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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