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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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Thursday, February 16, 2017
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Slogans expressing support to the New People’s Army are spray-painted on walls and signage in Barangay Camanci Sur, Numancia, Aklan. AKLAN FORUM JOURNAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – Vandals have defaced walls and signage in Barangay Camanci Sur, Numancia town with slogans seen as an expression of support to rebellion.
Police were asking the public to help catch the culprits.
Spray-painted graffiti lauding the New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front — armed wing and political arm, respectively, of the Communist Party of the Philippines — were found outside Camanci Sur Elementary School and a variety store early Monday morning.
Locals reported their discovery to the municipal police station and the Philippine Army, and started removing them.
Authorities believe the graffiti may have been a reaction to the terminated peace negotiations between the government and the rebels.
But they were clueless on who exactly were behind the vandalism.
The NDF was representing the CPP and the NPA in the peace talks, which hit a snag after the NPA and the government declared the cancellation of their respective unilateral ceasefires early this month.
Camanci Sur is a coastal barangay in Numancia, some 6 kilometers north of this capital town.
Lieutenant Colonel Leomar Jose Doctolero, commander of the Philippine Army’s 12th Infantry Battalion, claimed Aklan remains insurgency-free.
Peace and order continues to improve in the absence of armed conflicts, he insisted.
“The act was an attempt at making Aklan feel the existence of insurgents in light of the end of the unilateral ceasefires,” Doctolero said in a radio interview. (With Aklan Forum Journal/PN)
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