SAN PEDRO CITY—Student activists at the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) hailed as a martyr John Carlo Alberto, who was killed in a recent clash between New People’s Army (NPA) rebels and the Philippine Army in Laguna province. Alberto, 22, and an undergraduate student of the College of Veterinary Medicine at UPLB, was the lone fatality in the Feb. 14 clash in Luisiana town. “Let’s pay homage to our martyr John Carlo “Ka Inocencio” Alberto,” read a message sent out by a youth sector alliance at UPLB. Parayno said the Army believed there had been a “massive recruitment” by the NPA, particularly, at UPLB in recent years. Parayno said documents found by soldiers in the NPA camps and clash sites pointed to UPLB as recruitment ground for rebels.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 19, 2019 21:22 UTC