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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Thursday, January 31, 2008 |
Rebel leader killed,
another captured
IN 15-MINUTE FIREFIGHT
BY GILBERT BAYORAN & RENE GENOVE
An alleged leader of the New People's Army was killed in an encounter with soldiers in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental, while his comrades disarmed a former member of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade linked to killings in northern Negros , the military yesterday said.
Maj. Nathaniel Villasor, 303 rd Infantry Brigade Civil Military Operations chief, yesterday identified the slain rebel leader as Rene Yap, alias Dax, a member of the executive committee of the Komiteng Rehiyonal- Sentral Bisayas, operating in southern Negros .
A certain Ka Jack was captured by soldiers during pursuit operations, the military also said.
| Salonga to launch book, Former Senator Jovito Salonga will launch his book, “Not by Power or Wealth Alone”, Sunday, at Silliman University in Dumaguete City . Salonga will also be the keynote speaker at the launching of the University Christian Life Emphasis Week celebration on the same day. A recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service in 2007, Salonga will speak on the theme “Growing in Christ: Living by the Truth and in Love.” |
| Dumaguete journalist, A newspaper columnist in Dumaguete City has demanded an apology from Dumaguete City Mayor Agustin Perdices in exchange for dropping his civil suit for violation of press freedom rights against the mayor, in November last year. Columnist Dindo Generoso of the weekly, The Negros Chronicle, made the demand on January 23 during a pre-trial of a counter-suit he filed against Perdices. Generoso filed the counter suit after Perdices sued him and asked for a written apology over a column he wrote shortly after the May 2007 elections. |
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