SURIGAO (Mindanao Examiner / 09 Mar) - Two policemen were killed in an attack by suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the southern Philippines, officials said.
Officials said the cops were eating their meals at market area in the town of Lianga in Surigao province when NPA gunmen shot them late Wednesday.
No groups or individual claimed responsibility for the attack, but the police blamed the killings to the hit squad Sparrow Unit. The rebels also carted away the policemen’s M16 automatic rifles before escaping, officials said.
A Philippine official earlier said the NPA rebels were also plotting to assassinate President Gloria Arroyo. Secy. Norberto Gonzales, Arroyo’s security adviser, said the rebels also marked him for death.
But rebel spokesman Gregorio Rosal denied the report and said it was a "desperate attempt to forage worn-out spin materials for use in his (Gonzales) obsessive Red-baiting and dirty legal scheming."
“This is the nth time that Gonzales has concocted this same spin of an 'assassination' plot against himself and his fascist boss. He is repeating the same babble because he has run out of things to hurl against NDFP chief political consultant Jose Ma. Sison and other progressive leaders."
"This renewed psywar offensive is nothing but a cheap attempt to carry out more fascist measures to persecute Prof. Sison and derail the peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the NDFP," Rosal said in a statement posted Friday on the website of the outlawed Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on this URL: http://www.philippinerevolution.net.
The Philippine military also implicated CPP chief Jose Maria Sison in the alleged assassination plot. Sison has been living in exile in The Netherlands. The NPA is the armed wing of the CPP. (Romy Bwaga and Juan Magtanggol)
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