DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Nov. 10, 2012) – Communist rebels said they attacked a group of army soldiers and pro-government militias in the southern Filipino city of Davao and wounding 8 of them.
Rigoberto Sanchez, a spokesman for the New People’s Army-Merardo Arce Command, said rebel forces used command-detonated explosives in the attack in Paquibato District. He said two soldiers and 6 militias were wounded in the offensive.
He said the soldiers and militias were terrorizing peasants and tribesmen in Paquibato and that the attack was a “punitive measures against the 10th Infantry Division to counter its atrocious methods of terrorizing the peasant and Lumad masses in Paquibato District.”
“The explosive is meant to warn the Lumad bandits and 10th Infantry Division from further exploiting and abusing the indigenous Manobos of Paquibato for its reign of terror and counterrevolutionary operations,” Sanchez said in a statement sent to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
There was no immediate statement from the 10th Infantry Division about the attack nor the abuses of soldiers and militias in Davao City.
The NPA has been fighting for decades now for the establishment of a Maoist state in the country. (Mindanao Examiner)
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