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Gloria orders AFP offensive
BY CARLA GOMEZ & GILBERT BAYORAN

The military in the Visayas is escalating its offensives against the New People's Army following the ambush that killed nine soldiers and injured 20 others in Calinog town in Iloilo, Gen. Alphonsus Crucero, commander of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, said last night.

Crucero told the DAILY STAR the 3rd Division had been on the offensive against the NPA even before the Calinog attack but now they will step up their pursuit of the rebels in Negros, Panay, Cebu and Bohol.

The best defense is offense, we will go after those who sow terror and undermine the law, we will find them in their lairs, Crucero said. moremoremore

CPP-NPA justifies
use of landmines
BY NESTOR BURGOS JR.

ILOILO CITY - The Communist Party of the Philippines and New People's Army are justifying the use of landmines in their attacks against government troops.

In an e-mailed statement, CPP-NPA spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal refuted the allegations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines that the rebels' use of the landmines violated the ban on the use of such weapons by the Geneva Convention on war.

In a statement issued by the CPP's Information Bureau yesterday, Rosal said that obviously, these AFP officials are completely ignorant of international conventions. What is prohibited, he said, is the use of victim-triggered landmines. There are no prohibitions against command-detonated landmines which the NPA uses as a precision and responsible weapon against military targets, he also claimed. moremoremore

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