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4 ARMS SEIZED IN QUEZON
Four high-powered rifles were confiscated by a guerrilla unit of the New People�s Army in San Antonio, Quezon. In a raid launched on October 11 at around 4:30 p.m. in Barangay Matipungo, an M16, two carbines, a Garand and two grenades were confiscated. The raid targeted the houses of Brgy. Capt. Domingo Mendoza and Raymundo Gavieno, barangay tanod chief in the village.
MILITARY CONVOY AMBUSHED IN AGUSAN
Three soldiers were killed and five others were wounded when New People�s Army guerrillas ambushed a Philippine Army convoy in September. The ambush was launched on September 10 in Dimasalang, San Luis, Agusan del Sur.
POLICE CHIEF PUNISHED IN MINDORO
The New People�s Army in basaOriental Mindoro punished Insp. Leodegario Turno, chief of police of San Teodoro town. Turno was riding a motorcycle when ambushed on October 22 at 12 noon in Lumangbayan, San Teodoro. The guerrillas confiscated .45 from Turno.
STATEMENT ON DECASA SURRENDER
The National Democratic Front (NDF)-Central Visayas clarified in a statement the circumstances surrounding the surrender of Jaime Decasa to the reactionary AFP on September 3. Decasa, former vice mayor of Batuan, Bohol, joined the New People�s Army in March 1999.
Under the direction of AFP chief Gen. Angelo Reyes and Malaca�ang, Decasa�s relatives, friends and former political allies were tapped to facilitate his surrender. The NDF bared the payment of P600,000 to Jude Estrada, Joseph Estrada�s son, as �legal facilitation fee� to secure the dismissal of a murder case against Decasa. Decasa and two others were accused of killing Ernesto Hingpit in May 1998.
According to the NDF, the enemy�s maneuvers dovetailed Decasa�s internal weaknesses. In its statement, the NDF said that Decasa failed to raise his consciousness from simple personal anger at his political rival to a more comprehensive revolutionary consciousness. He also found it difficult to renounce his anti-people behavior in the past and to overcome personal sentimentalism.
5,000 FARMERS RALLY IN MANILA
More than 15,000 farmers from Northern and Central Luzon, Southern Tagalog and Bicol marched to Manila to assert their demand for genuine land reform. In a march-rally held from October 19 to 21, the farmers denounced the US-Estrada�s pro-imperialist policies, including the regime�s scheme to amend the constitution of the Republic of the Philippines to allow foreign monopoly capitalists to own land in the country.
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