SANDATAHANG DAHAS CITATIONS
The Misguidance of Chantal Anicoche
Patricio Abinales, Positively Filipino
The NPA has near-perfected the art of making improvised explosive devices (IED) and – listening to the YouTube video of the soldiers who discovered Ms. Anicoche – these are weapons the AFP and police appear to be most wary about. But the IED’s seem to have a limited effect. The number of the wounded had risen, but dead soldiers or police officers had been kept to a minimum. At the other end, AFP/police-NPA encounters often led to rebels being killed. This is at least the pattern one notices in the statistics provided by the Vera Files-UP Third World Studies Dahas Project.
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Wala nang grupong gerilya sa bansa?
Miguel Paolo P. Reyes, Vera Files
The Sandatahang Dahas monitor of the University of the Philippines Third World Studies Center notes that between January to July, 81 alleged members of the CPP-NPA were killed in reported encounters with the AFP in eighteen provinces. One encounter occurred in Masbate a day before the SONA, resulting in the death of eight suspected rebels. Within August, so far, at least two reported encounters—one in Occidental Mindoro (province no. 19) and one in Quezon (province no. 20)—resulted in NPA fatalities.
Read full report here.