3 soldiers killed in clash with NPA rebels in Quezon (Philippines)

This war got hot after President Arroyo, with the encouragement of the Bush regime, broke off peace negotiations with the rebels.

3 soldiers killed in clash with NPA rebels in Quezon

First posted 09:42am (Mla time) Nov 22, 2005
By Joel Francis Guinto
INQ7.net

THREE Army soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded following an encounter between government security forces and communist guerillas in Quezon province on Monday, officials said Tuesday.

This brings to 13 the number of deaths and to 32 the number of injured on the government side in clashes with the New People's Army (NPA) since Saturday.

At around 5:20 p.m. Monday troops from the 1st Infantry Battalion encountered some 50 NPA fighters while on patrol in Cabatang village, Tiaong town, Army spokesman Major Bartolome Bacarro said.

This resulted in the death of three soldiers and the wounding of nine others, Bacarro said, adding that the rebels suffered an undetermined number of casualties.

"Clothing with bloodstains were recovered during clearing operations," Bacarro said.

Also in Tiaong town last Sunday, a policeman was killed while three others were injured in a firefight with NPA guerillas.

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More killings: Journalist, Bayan leader shot dead

First posted 00:53am (Mla time) Nov 22, 2005
By Tonette Orejas, Anselmo Roque, Marlon Ramos
Inquirer News Service

IN AN APPARENT UPSURGE of political killings, gunmen shot dead a reporter and a leftwing militant and police found the bodies of a youth leader and her husband who were kidnapped nearly a month ago.

Roberto “Robby” Ramos, 39, a reporter and columnist of the weekly Katapat News, based in Cavite province, outside Manila, was killed on Sunday by two motorcycle-riding men in front of Pinky’s Market in the village of Banlic in Cabuyao town in the province of Laguna at 7:45 p.m., police said.

Ramos was the ninth journalist killed in the country this year and the second in three days. On Friday, broadcaster Ricardo Uy was shot dead by a gunman in front of his house in Sorsogon City, southeast of Manila.

Since the ouster of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, 99 journalists have been killed in the Philippines, according to a list compiled by the Inquirer. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) puts the figure at 72.

“We urge the President and the police to drop their self-serving rhetoric and work genuinely and resolutely for the arrest, prosecution and punishment of killers of journalists,” the NUJP said in a statement.

“The President must act to erase the Philippines’ notoriety as the most murderous and the most dangerous -- next only to Iraq -- country in the world for journalists,” it said.

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His ego demands making them bow down to worship him and we get another three soldiers killed because of his blanking pride and stupidity? I hope he is hung for the damage he's done our country.