DAVAO CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Apr. 20, 2013) – Communist rebels launched their own political campaign in the southern Philippines and explaining to citizens their policies regarding the conduct of the May general elections in the country.
Allan Juanito, a spokesman for the New People’s Army-North Central Mindanao Regional Command, said the campaign is in accordance to their “revolutionary” policies and that they set up check points in four provinces in the region and distributed pamphlets explaining their stand.
“Units of the New People’s Army under the North Central Mindanao Regional Command simultaneously put up checkpoints in several areas within four provinces. This is in accordance to the revolutionary policies regarding the conduct of 2013 election,” he said in a statement sent to the regional newspaper Mindanao Examiner.
“Pamphlets explaining the revolutionary movement’s stand and policies regarding the reactionary election were distributed,” he said.
Juanito said NPA units will continue to launch punitive actions against “environmentally-destructive” operations and exploitative foreign agribusiness companies that refuse to heed repeated warnings against the expansion of their plantations in the South. (Mindanao Examiner)
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