From the Website of AFP
Story Links: http://www.afp.mil.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129:afp-npa-must-be-accountable-for-abduction-of-civilians&catid=8&Itemid=435
AFP: NPA Must Be Held Accountable for Abduction of Civilians
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City –
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) today said the New People’s
Army (NPA) must be held accountable for the abduction and illegal
detention of five Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
surveyors last Friday in Compostela Valley.
The DENR personnel were abducted by the NPA in Brgy. New Leyte, Maco, Compostela Valley Province around 2:00 p.m. last Friday. This prompted troops from the Eastern Mindanao Command to conduct calculated operations so as to protect the civilians being illegally held by the rebels.
The DENR personnel were abducted by the NPA in Brgy. New Leyte, Maco, Compostela Valley Province around 2:00 p.m. last Friday. This prompted troops from the Eastern Mindanao Command to conduct calculated operations so as to protect the civilians being illegally held by the rebels.
Contrary to what the NPA is claiming, the civilians were there to bring services to the people by undertaking validation and survey on the government’s National Greening Program in the area.
They used an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for anti-logging aerial reconnaissance and not for intelligence surveillance.
It was paranoia on the part of the NPA for believing that the civilians were using the UAV for intelligence surveillance even calling them as instruments of mass genocide and civilian destruction. A UAV is not a spying equipment alone and can also be used for other services supporting development.
Not the first time
This is not the first time the NPAs abducted civilians in Compostela Valley.
Last month, about 70 rebels belonging to the NPA's Guerilla Front 2 and Pulang Bagani Command 6 took 39 civilians as human shields in Barangay Golden Valley, Mabini Town. These are the same group that perpetrated the abduction in Maco town, about 10 kilometers away from Mabini.
Intensified Operations against NPA
Following the release of the civilians yesterday, AFP troops vowed to intensify its operations against the NPAs particularly in Davao area where they continue to participate in illegal activities such as small-scale mining, extortion and kidnapping.
The NPA resort to hostage-taking, abduction and detention on anything that can compromise their disposition. These are criminal acts and violation of the human rights that continue to endanger lives of innocent civilians.
The AFP is ready to impose its forces shall it be needed, and exhaust all our efforts to put in the bars of justice, NPA members who are guilty of these crimes.
AFP Websites
http://www.afp.mil.ph/
Links:
http://www.afp.mil.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129:afp-npa-must-be-accountable-for-abduction-of-civilians&catid=8&Itemid=435
http://humanrightspromotions.blogspot.com/
http://www.humanrightspromotions.co.nr
PEACE TALK PHILIPPINES
PROTECTION AND PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------
