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Eleazar slams CPP-NPA for ignoring calls to surrender Masbate landmine attack perpetrators
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police General Guillermo Eleazar on Friday slammed the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) for ignoring calls to surrender its members behind the landmine attack that killed college football player Kieth Absalon and his cousin.
“What can we expect from these rebels who are just pretending to be remorseful over their terrorist attack that killed Kieth and Nolven?” he said.
“They have never been sincere, in the first place, and we have expected this from them. The CPP-NPA will not listen to reason, stuck in their crooked and twisted way of thinking,” he added.
Eleazar said the inaction of the communist group would embolden its members to continue with the terror activities that harm civilians.
On Sunday, a bomb and gun attack
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Several government agencies have been demanding the CPP-NPA to turn over to government authorities the members involved in the attack to show the sincerity of their apology over the crime.
“Ang lalakas ng loob nilang pumuna sa pamahalaan at ginagamit pa nila itong instrumento para linlangin ang taumbayan pero ang sarili nilang tauhan bini-baby kapag nakapatay ng mga inosenteng sibilyan,” Eleazar said.
(They always have the gall to call out the government and they use it to deceive the public, but then they protect their members who commit a crime against innocent civilians.)
Eleazar vowed to the victims’ family that the police and military will give them justice for the death of Kieth and Nolven.
“No less than the arrest and conviction by a court of law of the perpetrators behind this violent and dastardly act can make up for the death of the two innocent men,” he said. —Joviland Rita/KBK, GMA News