[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine security forces raided a New People's Army hideout and captured three militants in Butuan City. Police said the four were tracked down in Tungao village early Friday after weeks of surveillance. The raiders also seized weapons, including automatic rifles, grenades, munitions, improvised explosives, cellular phones, and assorted communist propaganda.
Roldan Bunggolto, head of the NPA's Militia ng Bayan; his deputy Danilo Acania and Jek-Jek Borja, who are all wanted for murders in Agusan del Norte province.
President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has recently said he would open peace negotiations with the NPA. Duterte also said he would free all political prisoners, including members and leaders of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines.
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[GMA News] Two Philippine soldiers were ambushed and killed by Abu Sayyaf gunmen in Sumisip, Basilan Saturday morning. Military spokesman Major Filemon Tan did not identify the slain soldiers, but said they were a private and private first class. The soldiers were on their way back to their base aboard a motorcycle when they were fired upon. The gunmen then fled on a motorcycle, while responding soldiers retrieved their comrade's remains.
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[Bangkok Post] Five people were wounded after militants sprayed bullets at a grocery store in Pattani province on Sunday. Police were informed of the shooting in Khok Pho district in the afternoon. Upon arrival they found a pool of blood at a table in front of the grocery. Ten spent AK-47 bullet cartridges were found a the road three meters away.
Police said ten people were watching a Muay Thai boxing match on television when four men arrived on two motorcycles, and the pillion passengers armed with AK-47 opened fire at them, before fleeing. The assailants later attacked a group of teenagers who were sitting at a roadside pavilion a kilometer from the grocery store, but no one was injured.
One of the five wounded was a policeman who sustained serious gunshot wounds to the abdomen. The other four men, all civilians, were shot in the leg.
Pattani police chief Tanongsak Wangsupa said after the twin attacks security officers had cast a net to trap the assailants. It is believed the attacks were in retaliation over Thai security forces killing four members of an armed unit of the RKK separatist movement on Wednesday when they raided their temporary camp in mountainous Chanae district of Narathiwat.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Incoming Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime, urging citizens with guns to shoot and kill drug pushers who resist arrest and fight back in their neighborhoods.
In a nationally televised speech late Saturday, Rodrigo Duterte told a huge crowd in the southern city of Davao celebrating last month’s presidential victory that Filipinos who help him battle crime will be rewarded.
"Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun -- you have my support," Duterte said, warning of an extensive illegal drug trade that involves even the country’s police.
If a drug pusher resists arrest or refuses to be brought to a cop shoppe and threatens a citizen with a gun or a knife, "you can kill him," Duterte said. "Shoot him and I’ll give you a medal."
The 71-year-old Duterte won the May 9 presidential election on a bold promise to end crime and corruption within six months of his presidency. That vow resonated among crime-weary Filipinos, though police officials considered it campaign rhetoric that was impossible to accomplish.
Human rights watchdogs have expressed alarm that his anti-crime drive may lead to widespread rights violations.
Duterte has been suspected of playing a role in many killings of suspected criminals in his city by cycle of violence-riding assassins known as the "Davao death squads," but human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... watchdogs say he has not been criminally charged because nobody has dared to testify against him in court.
In his speech on Saturday, Duterte also asked three police generals based in the main national police camp in the capital to resign for involvement in crimes that he did not specify. He threatened to humiliate them in public if they did not quit and said he would order a review of dismissed criminal cases of active coppers, suggesting some may have bribed their way back onto the force.
"They go back again crucifying the Filipino," he said. "I won’t agree to that."
"If you’re still into drugs, I will kill you, don’t take this as a joke. I’m not trying to make you laugh, son of a bitch, I will really kill you," he said to loud jeers and applause.
The foul-mouthed longtime Davao mayor and former government prosecutor said crimes were committed by law enforcers because of "extreme greed and extreme need." He said that he would provide a small amount to an officer who was tempted because his wife has cancer or a mother died, but that those who would break the law because of extreme greed "will also be dealt with by me. I’ll have you killed."
Duterte, who starts his six-year presidential term on June 30, repeated a plan to offer huge bounties to those who can turn in drug lords, dead or alive.
While it remains to be seen what will happen to his threats when he takes office, some coppers have heeded his call for a tougher anti-crime approach.
In suburban Las Pinas city in the Manila metropolis, police have apprehended more than 100 minors who defied a night curfew, and men who were either having drinking sprees in public or roaming around shirtless in violation of a local ordinance. The crackdown was dubbed "Oplan Rody" -- after Duterte’s nickname -- or "Rid the Streets of Drinkers and Youth."
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[Mindanao Examiner] Philippine security forces raided a New People's Army hideout and captured three militants in Butuan City. Police said the four were tracked down in Tungao village early Friday after weeks of surveillance. The raiders also seized weapons, including automatic rifles, grenades, munitions, improvised explosives, cellular phones, and assorted communist propaganda.
[Bangkok Post] Five people were wounded after militants sprayed bullets at a grocery store in Pattani province on Sunday. Police were informed of the shooting in Khok Pho district in the afternoon. Upon arrival they found a pool of blood at a table in front of the grocery. Ten spent AK-47 bullet cartridges were found a the road three meters away. 
