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PNP Chief Dela Rosa: Peace talks with NPA pointless

BANSALAN, Davao del Sur Philippine National Police Director General Ronald dela Rosa
said on Thursday it has become pointless to negotiate with communist rebels for peace.

Dela Rosa made the comment as he took note of how suspected New Peoples Army rebels killed
PO3 Jayden May Rabor of the Davao del Sur police crime laboratory, and Bansalan police
members PO1 Rholly Benelayo, PO1 Joey O Narvaza and PO1 Saro Mangotara during an ambush
in Barangay Sibayan here on Wednesday.
I really pity our slain police officers. They were shot many times in the head, he said.
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We have long been talking peace with them but nothing happened. Nothing is happening. I would
be retiring soon but the talks had not achieved anything, he said.
Dela Rosa, set to retire in 2018, said President Rodrigo Duterte would have the final say on
whether to resume peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed front
New Peoples Army, as represented by its political arm, the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines.
It all depends on the President, he said.
President Duterte on Thursday afternoon ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines to wage
an all-out war against the NPA and drop bombs on the rebel guerillas. He also ruled out the
resumption of the peace talks with thec CPP, NPA and NDFP at this time.
In blaming the NPA for the ambush, Dela Rosa said no other rebel group operated in Bansalan.
Theres no Abu Sayyaf or (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) rebels here, he said, as he cited past
experiences, such as the 2009 ambush against the Bansalan police chief, Senior Insp. Emelix
Mabalot. Mabalot, two other policemen and a tanod, were all killed in the attack.
Dela Rosa said Mabalot and his men were on their way back to Bansalan after picking up the
cadaver of a soldier in Barangay Managa when ambushed by the NPA. The rebels had admitted
staging the ambush.
He also shared a personal experience when he was still the Bansalan police chief in 1991.
Dela Rosa said he and his team were to pick up the cadaver of a crime victim in a hinterland village
but they found out that the rebels had placed a grenade under the body.
So they did it in the past, he added.
Dela Rosa said based on the report to him, the NPAs Front Committee 51 has been operating in the
area.
Chief Supt. Manuel Gaerlan, the Southern Mindanao police chief, said the rebels, numbering about
20, initially tried to set off a landmine but the explosive failed to go off.
He said when the landmine failed to explode, the rebels then trained their guns on the patrol car.
The unexploded IED had been recovered near the actual ambush site.
The policemen were there to investigate the killing of two persons (not one as earlier reported) in
Sibayan when ambushed, said the Davao del Sur police director, Senior Supt. Samuel Gadingan.
Gaerlan said the rebels took the firearms and personal belongings of the slain policemen before
fleeing.
Police investigators said they also recovered a number of empty shells for 7.62-guns near the
bodies of Rabor and the two other slain officers. The policemen from Bansalan were armed with
Armalite rifles, which used the 5.56-ammunition. The NPA has AK-47s, which use the 7.62-
ammunition.
Duterte to AFP: Drop bombs on NPA rebels, flatten hills
President rules out peace talks with communist rebels after Davao ambush

By: Allan Nawal, Eldie Aguirre - @inquirerdotnet


Inquirer Mindanao / 04:46 PM March 09, 2017

BANSALAN, Davao del Sur President Duterte has ruled out peace talks with the communist
rebels and declared that the police and the military can now pursue them.

He lamented on Thursday, that the NPA targeted non-combatants when they shot dead four
members of the Scene of the Crime operatives of the local police in Bansalan, Davao del Sur,
during an ambush.
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They (police officers) were only about to investigate. What color is there? Duterte said. The
team of police investigators was sent to Bansalan to investigate a murder case.
He said he has ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines to use all its assets, including the newly
acquired jets and drop bombs on the rebels.
Go ahead, flatten the hills, he said, to the delight of the crowd present.
Addressing the NPA, the President said Look at what you have done. Look at how the people
responded.
He said it was no longer viable to talk with the rebels because nililigaw nila (theyre diverting
issues in the talks, theyre muddling the talks).
Duterte said the killing of the policemen was part of a well- laid trap.
In asking the military to pursue the rebels, the President said the peace talks have been suspended
anyway.
Its totally absent so in the meantime, I will just ask the armed forces and the police, just go ahead
wage a war against them, anything goes for now, he said.
Duterte said he would now allow the police and the military to use all available assets such as
fighter jets and rockets.
Collateral damage, pasensya (Collateral damage, my apologies), he said.
Duterte said he had offered peace from the start but the rebels did the opposite.
Well, Im sorry this gory incident had to happen (ambush on police investigators). But I can assure
everybody that the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police will respond this time. Im
using everything, he said.
So what you receive you give also, he added. SFM

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