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                    [ArticleID] => 1330102
                    [Title] => Snatched DENR personnel might have been mistaken for spies
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Employees of the Environment department who were abducted in Maco, Compostela Valley last Friday by suspected communist rebels were possibly mistaken for military spies as they operated drones to assess a government greening program, a military official said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-02 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805309 [AuthorName] => Alexis Romero [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 328485 [Title] => 3 rebels killed in Mindoro pursuit [Summary] => Three communist rebels were killed in the military’s pursuit operations against the New People’s Army (NPA) unit that killed a Bulacan board member and an Army soldier in an ambush in Sta. Cruz, Mindoro Occidental last Friday.

Col. Elmer Quiros, battalion commander of the Army’s 80th Infantry Brigade, identified two of the slain rebels as Percival Relyon, alias Ka Moron, and Ronaldo Salmoring, alias Ka Louie, both belonging to the NPA’s Lucio de Guzman Command.

The third fatality, a woman, remains unidentified.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 326463 [Title] => NPA commander killed [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — A suspected New People’s Army (NPA) commander was killed in renewed hostilities with government troopers before dawn yesterday in a remote village in Mindoro Occidental.

In a long-distance phone interview from the site of the encounter, Army Lt. Col. Elmer Quiros, commanding officer of the Army’s 80th Infantry Battalion, said his men clashed with at least 13 heavily armed rebels in Sitio Calamintao in Sta. Cruz town at about 4:50 a.m.

"We still have to get the full identity of the slain NPA guerrilla," Quiros said.
[DatePublished] => 2006-03-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 312946 [Title] => Another vintage bomb found in Mindoro village [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Another World War II bomb was found in Mindoro village on Sunday and was immediately brought to a safer ground by the military.

A farmer in sitio Maasin, Poblacion 9, Mamburao, Mindoro Occidental found the rocket-type vintage bomb while plowing the field, said Army Lt. Col. Elmer Quiros, commander of the 80th Infantry Battalion based in the province.

Quiros said in a telephone interview that Alberto Valentine discovered the bomb measuring about 32 inches in length and four inches in diameter.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-20 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 298759 [Title] => Mindoro Reds to surrender en masse [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Dozens of communist leaders in Occidental Mindoro will surrender en masse in front of military and civilian government officials this morning.

Army Lt. Col. Elmer Quiros, commanding officer of the Occidental Mindoro-based 80th Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army said 50 former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) will take their oath of allegiance to the Philippine government at the Occidental Mindoro provincial capitol training center in Mamburao town.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 158191 [Title] => 600 GI-Joe balik sa Subic [Summary] => SUBIC BAY FREEPORT – Umaabot sa 600 bilang na karagdagang puwersa ng American contingent ang dumating dito kahapon sa dating US Naval base sa Subic Bay upang lumahok sa panibagong Balikatan 02-2 war exercises na gaganapin sa Central Luzon sa pagitan ng kanilang Filipino counterparts na magsisimula ngayon.

Ayon sa ibinigay na impormasyon mula sa Balikatan 02-2 Combined/Joint Information Bureau (CJIB), napag-alaman na nakatakda sanang dumating kamakalawa ang panibagong batch ng US personnel na karamihan ay US Marines subalit ito ay ipinagpaliban sa hindi ibinunyag na dahilan. [DatePublished] => 2002-04-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Probinsiya [SectionUrl] => probinsiya [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146777 [Title] => Rebel taxation flourishing in Ilocos, CAR [Summary] => CAMP HENRY ALLEN, Baguio City — Rebel taxation is flourishing in the Ilocos and Cordillera provinces, and "heads of local government units are even involved," a military official said.
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 146560 [Title] => NPA denies any role in Abra mayor’s ambush-slay [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — The New People’s Army (NPA) command operating in the Ilocos and Cordillera regions denied any involvement in the Dec. 27 ambush-slaying of Tubo, Abra mayor Jose Segundo.

In a statement, Martin Montana, self-confessed spokesman of the NPA-Cordillera’s Chadli Molintas Command, said they were not responsible for Segundo’s killing, claiming that rebel units operating in the Cordillera, which covers Abra, "adhered to the unilateral ceasefire declared by the National Democratic Front."
[DatePublished] => 2002-01-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 133583 [Title] => 200 NPAs on test mission in Ilocos, Cordillera reg [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Government troopers are bracing for renewed rebel hostilities, specifically in the Ilocos region and Cordillera amid reports that some 200 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels from Bicol region have been deployed on test missions here.

This came as elements of the 50th Infantry Battalion based in Ilocos Sur chanced upon around 10 NPA guerrillas in a remote barangay in Suyo town, conducting "teach-ins" among civilian villagers.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 131212 [Title] => Soldiers accused of killing innocent farmer [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — The provincial peace and order council has formed a fact-finding panel to investigate the alleged involvement of members of the Army’s Third Special Forces Battalion in the fatal shooting of a farmer who was reportedly mistaken as a communist rebel.

The victim, Johnson Camareg, a resident of Sitio Posong, Barangay Anabel, Sadanga town, was gunned down during a supposed encounter between the Army unit and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels last Aug. 9, according to reports reaching the council.
[DatePublished] => 2001-08-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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