AFP condemns CPP-NPA attack in Bukidnon
Published May 30, 2019 09:28 pm
By Francis Wakefield
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) condemned the attack reportedly staged by terrorists belonging to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) against Foreign Observers in Bukidnon Thursday morning.
Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
AFP Spokesman Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, said the attack on the Indigenous Peoples (IP) observers by NPA terrorists is unacceptable and should be denounced.
"We denounce strongly this attack on Foreign Observers who were in the country to visit various projects of indigenous peoples in the locality. They are non-combatant civilians," Arevalo said.
"That is a totally detestable act by the CPP-NPA that deserves widespread, global condemnation. It only shows that contrary to their portrayed role, they are anti-IP progress. The CPP-NPA wants our rural folks to remain poor and dejected," he added.
Arevalo said fellow Filipinos should, therefore, unite and reject these terrorists that are menaces to society and puts the country in a bad light by their deliberate use of anti-personnel mines.
A military report said seven Army soldiers were wounded after a land mine exploded as a military convoy escorting foreigners passed in Impasug-ong town, Bukidnon, Thursday morning.
The convoy of vehicles was carrying foreigners, local volunteers, and soldiers when an anti-personnel mine believed to have been detonated by NPA terrorists exploded.
Fortunately, no one was hurt among the foreigners.
Capt. Ryan Layug, a civil military officer of the Army's 403rd Brigade, said soldiers returned fire at the ambushers, wounding three of them.
Layug said 11 foreigners from the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) communities in Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Malaysia came to Sitio Mintapod, Barangay Hagpa, in Impasugong to observe the activities of local IP community volunteers belonging to Higaonon Amamag Malandang Olandok Gagaw (HAMOG), a non-government organization which promotes cultural preservation in the area.
Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, spokesman of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
AFP Spokesman Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo, said the attack on the Indigenous Peoples (IP) observers by NPA terrorists is unacceptable and should be denounced.
"We denounce strongly this attack on Foreign Observers who were in the country to visit various projects of indigenous peoples in the locality. They are non-combatant civilians," Arevalo said.
"That is a totally detestable act by the CPP-NPA that deserves widespread, global condemnation. It only shows that contrary to their portrayed role, they are anti-IP progress. The CPP-NPA wants our rural folks to remain poor and dejected," he added.
Arevalo said fellow Filipinos should, therefore, unite and reject these terrorists that are menaces to society and puts the country in a bad light by their deliberate use of anti-personnel mines.
A military report said seven Army soldiers were wounded after a land mine exploded as a military convoy escorting foreigners passed in Impasug-ong town, Bukidnon, Thursday morning.
The convoy of vehicles was carrying foreigners, local volunteers, and soldiers when an anti-personnel mine believed to have been detonated by NPA terrorists exploded.
Fortunately, no one was hurt among the foreigners.
Capt. Ryan Layug, a civil military officer of the Army's 403rd Brigade, said soldiers returned fire at the ambushers, wounding three of them.
Layug said 11 foreigners from the Indigenous Peoples (IPs) communities in Vietnam, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Malaysia came to Sitio Mintapod, Barangay Hagpa, in Impasugong to observe the activities of local IP community volunteers belonging to Higaonon Amamag Malandang Olandok Gagaw (HAMOG), a non-government organization which promotes cultural preservation in the area.