DAVAO CITY — Communist rebels have admitted responsibility for the April 4 ambush that killed a tribal leader and wounded two others in Magpet town, North Cotabato province. Apo Sub-Regional Operations Command, said the killing of Antonio Takinan, the indigenous peoples’ (IPs) mandatory representative to the Magpet town council, was an imposition of revolutionary justice against “antipeople” individuals. Police described Takinan as active in convincing his fellow “lumad” to join the government’s Civilian Active Auxiliary. She said the slain lumad leader also helped soldiers “terrorize” IP communities at Barangay Manobo in Magpet when he denounced them as communist supporters. The police had tagged communist rebels as behind the ambush before the NPA released its statement.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 09, 2018 21:11 UTC