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                    [Title] => Leyte killing field yields four more skeletons
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Army troops and police have dug up four more skeletons, believed those of purged communist rebels, from a mass grave in a remote barangay in Inopacan, Southern Leyte.


The discovery brought to 71 the total number of remains recovered from a New People’s Army killing fields located some 370 meters above sea level at a ridge on Mt. Sapang Dako, Barangay Kaulihan in Inopacan.

Around 300 victims of a purge within the Communist Party of the Philippines are believed to have been buried in the killing field called "The Garden" 21 years ago.
[DatePublished] => 2006-09-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805318 [AuthorName] => Jaime Laude [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 355939 [Title] => AFP-PNP to charge Joma, Jalandoni, Satur for CPP-NPA purge [Summary] => The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) vowed yesterday to file charges against Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Ma. Sison for allegedly ordering the execution of some 300 suspected military spies in the 1980s.

AFP chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon said the military will join the PNP in filing the multiple murder charges against Ocampo, Sison and chief rebel negotiator Luis Jalandoni, who are both living in exile in the Netherlands.
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