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By: Mae Singuay
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Wednesday, June 28, 2017
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BACOLOD City – “Sooner or later, justice will be served. It’s just a matter of time.”
These were the words of Third Infantry Division commander Major General Jon Aying on the ambush of a sugarcane planter and his driver in Calatrava town.
The Roselyn Pelle Command of the New People’s Army (NPA), in a press statement dated June 25, claimed responsibility for the killing.
“The Roselyn Pelle terrorist and bandit group declared the killing a victory. Yes, it is a victory from the perspective of a criminal, a bandit and a terrorist,” Aying said.
“What do they get from it? More conflict? More hatred? More injustice? More bleeding, sorrows and sufferings to two more families? Money from those in cahoots with them or hired them?” Aying asked.
The official also said the killing was “an unnecessary and unacceptable atrocity and violence under our moral and spiritual values as well as our democratic principles and systems.”
The “barbaric act,” according to Aying, is no different to the killings of hundreds of innocent civilians in the past 10 years by the NPA in Negros Island, citing the Puso Massacre on Jan. 27, 2013 in La Castellana, Negros Occidental.
The incident claimed the lives of eight civilians and a policeman, and caused injuries to 12 others.
Aying furthermore described the NPA as “clearly murderers and cold-blooded killers.”
“This is one of the compelling reasons why they are losing more and more support from the people,” Aying said./PN
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