Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
JORGE Madlos @ORIS, the head of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) national operational command (NOC), is finally killed. This happened in the hinterlands of the quad-boundary Misamis Oriental-Bukidnon-Agusan-Surigao provinces, where his reign of terror was based for a long time. His violence include the killing of hundreds of Indigenous peoples (IP) leaders who would not subscribe to his and the CPP's wishes and designs, 37 counts of arson involving billions worth of equipment, burning of villages, and the killing of soldiers, policemen and Citizen Armed Forces Geographical Unit (Cafgu) auxiliaries.
I got several messages from stakeholders, thanking me and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for a good job for finally eliminating this dreaded monster. One of them is a priest now based in Australia who told me how NPA rebels under the leadership of Ka Oris, killed his father, a local official, who was simply trying to protect his constituents from the abuses and bullying of the NPA band.
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