NPA Attack in Davao City but no foreigners hurt

[Dave Hounddriver]

14 quizzed after NPA attacked Lorenzo clan’s businesses in Mindanao

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DAVAO CITY – Fourteen persons, including a woman, were detained for questioning by authorities during operations to hunt down about 100 communist rebels who attacked several businesses owned by the Lorenzo family in Southern Mindanao on Saturday, officials on Sunday said.
Ten of the arrested were released after police verified their identities as members of the Lorenzo firm’ security forces, authorities said.
Soldiers conducting clearing operations also recovered two bodies of alleged rebels in the upland district of Calinan, hours after the 3 a.m. simultaneous attacks at the compound of Lapanday Foods Corporation (LFC) of the Lorenzo family in Barangay Mandug, about 15 kilometers north of the city proper; and the family’s farm in Pangyan village in Calinan District, in the southern party of the city, said Capt. Rhyan Batchar, spokesperson of the Philippine Army’s 10th Infantry Division.
 

A wounded suspected rebel was also captured and turned over to the police, he said, adding that security forces recovered an assault rifle and improvised explosives in Pangyan.
While the attack in Mandug was raging, another band of rebels also torched the Macondray plastic plant in Tagpore village, Panabo City in Davao del Norte.

 

Same shite, different president. . . . More at link

[robert k]

At least sounds like the private security got some. 

[Jack Peterson]

Hmmmmmmmm now there was i thinking that Davao was the safest City in the PI  Seems I was mistaken

[Jollygoodfellow]

Extortion it is, not terrorism. They target a particular family business not at random so there is a reason for it. 

[Dave Hounddriver]

6 minutes ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

Extortion it is, not terrorism. They target a particular family business not at random so there is a reason for it.

Perhaps they see the rich getting richer on the backs of the working poor and they are rising up against it like they did in Cuba way back when.  It may be an isolated incident or it may be the resurgence of the NPA.  Lets wait and see.

[Snowy79]

My partner's family live to the rear of the factory. They think it boils down to good old protection rackets. The NPA make a bit of money from the mining companies down that neck of the wood and a few have been closed down hitting their pocket money. They've been trying to get funds elsewhere.

[RBM]

Starting to sound like the old sparrow brigade.

My understanding is the Lorenzo clan have not a good reputation for the way their workers are treated. Guess this makes them a prime target especially as mentioned the NPA is running low on mining companies for their typical extortion tactics.

[Reboot]

Seems to me that the NPA has morphed from a political movement to a crime syndicate....well I guess both things are one and the same in the end...

Edited May 1, 2017 by Reboot

[Dave Hounddriver]

5 hours ago, Reboot said:

Seems to me that the NPA has morphed from a political movement to a crime syndicate

Not having all the facts, I visualize it more as a Socialist/Communist movement to penalize greedy factory owners who do not give a dam about the people who do the manual labor.  Yes, that's a crime, but its the only way for labor to get anything accomplished where labor unions do not exist or are powerless. (Of course I was a union man for 30 years so its the way I would obviously view it  )

[Jack Peterson]

3 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

 Yes, that's a crime, but its the only way for labor to get anything accomplished where labor unions do not exist or are powerless.

 Quite agree Young man But why now? surely this has been going on for years.

 

Edited May 2, 2017 by Jack Peterson