Bobby Pedro News Today

Vincent Parra, Commission on Human Rights - Negros chief, says police rejected his request for records, which might have made it easier for the commission to validate the information it had gleaned from media about the killing of 6 people tagged by the military as communist rebels

BACOLOD CITY: The immediate families of New Peoples Army (NPA) members who were killed during an encounter with government soldiers in Kabankalan City last week received cash assistance from the government.

The Army welcomes CHR investigation, and maintains that all those killed were rebels who died in an encounter

The military asserts that the deaths resulted from an encounter in Sitio Lubi, Barangay Tabugon, Kabankalan

BACOLOD CITY: A rebel front on Negros Island called the incident where six suspected rebels in Kabankalan City were killed as a massacre.

Army Lieutenant Colonel J-Jay Javines, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs Office chief, says those slain were insurgents who have committed atrocities in Negros Occidental

THE New Peoples Army (NPA) suffered more setbacks in the Visayas following the death of six rebels in Negros Occidental on Thursday, bringing to 12 the number of insurgents killed during separate military ground operations.