links: http://www.army.mil.ph/pr/2014/may/110514.html
NPA PENALIZES THE POOR
Camp Melchor F dela Cruz, Upi, Gamu, Isabela
- The NPA continues its anti poor strategy thru violence by its wanton
killing of government troops engaged in peace and development activities
in Ilocos Sur last May 1, 2014.
The terrorist NPA recently ambushed
Peace and Development Teams of the 50th Infantry Battalion which are not
conducting combat operations but are in the area to facilitate and
implement projects in the barangays. The troops are in these poor
barangays of Ilocos Sur engaging helping the people in the towns of
Cervantes and Quirino.
In fact, the CPP-NPA-NDF in the area
committed grave human rights abuses by killing their own comrades in
Dominglay, Licuan-Baay, Abra. LTC DANILO DOMINGO, Commanding Officer of
41st Infantry Battalion, said that several summary executions were
carried out by the NPA terrorists. Several months ago, Freddie Ligiw,
Eddie Ligiw and Licuben Ligiw were liquidated by their former comrades.
This incident was reported by the
relatives of the victims themselves last March 2014. According to the
relatives, these killings were carried out by the NPA after Freddie
Ligiw, one of victims, peacefully surrendered to the government last
2011.
Despite these atrocities committed by
the NPA that resulted to the death of four soldiers (not six as was
being peddled by the NPA), MGEN BENITO ANTONIO DE LEON, the Commander of
the 5th Infantry Division, said that troopers will continue to serve
the people of Ilocos Sur and the Cordilleras. The Army troopers will not
abandon the projects that were started by the peace and development
teams despite the continued violent acts of the NPA terrorists, he
further averred.
Press Release by the 5ID, PA
PHILIPPINE ARMY
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