(09-09-2009 07:31 PM)eaglei Wrote: Register to the forum by clicking here to see links.Panacan, Davao City – A civilian was injured when local armed terrorist group (LTG) operating in Marilog District blasted an improvised explosive device (IED) at 9:35am today in Sitio Sabunutan, Suawan, Marilog District, Davao City.
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The Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy or ANAD Partylist strongly denounced the CPP-NPA-NDF for its wanton disregard of the safety of lives and limbs of the civilian populace by continuously planting Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) that are fashioned out as “landmines” along the road networks in eastern Mindanao particularly in Davao City.
ANAD Partlylist also criticized the failure of the Davao City Government under Mayor Rody Duterte to help the military and the police address the threatening roadside IED issue.
A traveling motorcycle-for-hire or “habal-habal” driver was seriously injured when two roadside IEDs simultaneously exploded along the Zaire Highway connecting Bukidnon and Davao Provinces at Sitio Lanitom, Barangay Suawan, Marilog District in Davao City about 9:45 a.m. yesterday, 08 September.
The victim, Ronald Sayan, sustained shrapnel wounds and was immediately rushed to the hospital by other travelers.
Suspected local terrorists simultaneously fired for the fifth time in Davao the two roadside IEDs to ambush a passing KM-450 troop carrier of the Bravo Company, 69IB PA under 1Lt Vidi T Tababa but instead hit Sayan who was also traveling the highway while earning an honest source of living.
The Army vehicle was hit but none of its passengers was injured, said a report of 1Lt Tababa to Col Oscar A Lactao, commanding officer of Task Force Davao which supervises the newly-redeployed 69IB.
Responding elements of the Marilog Police Station under the Davao City Police Office reportedly found two seats of explosion at the scene of incident, indicating that two separate roadside devices were indeed fired simultaneously.
The incident yesterday was the second daytime roadside IED attack along the Bukidnon-Davao Highway in less than a month.
The first was targeted against a patrol car of the Quezon MPS that was responding to a robbery-hostage staged by a local terrorist group (LTG) on a roadside eatery in Quezon town, Bukidnon about 2:30 p.m. last August 17.
The incident was the ninth roadside IED attack by the CPP-NPA-NDF in Southern Mindanao Region the last three months, and the second against the 69IB since its deployment in Marilog District three weeks ago.
Three soldiers of the 69IB were injured when the CPP-NPA-NDF’s Pulang Bagani Company 1 led by Leoncio Pitao alias Cmdr Parago struck an IED ambush on a team that was responding to the residents’ report on armed men laying down wires in an area at Brgy Dalagdag, Calinan District on August 30 afternoon.
Some local terrorists were believed injured in the subsequent firefight as indicated in the bloodstains along their withdrawal path.
It was the eighth incident in the region and the fourth in Davao City.
On July 27 morning, two members of the Army’s Scout Ranger Regiment were killed and five were hurt when a command-detonated IED was also fired against a team that was bringing back the cadaver of a NPA rebel that was exhumed, at the request of the family, from a shallow grave in Paquibato District, Davao City where fellow rebels hurriedly buried his body after killing him gangland style.
The IED blast was the second in Paquibato that was attributed to the NPA.
About 10 a.m. on August 6, an IED that was hung on a tree along a barangay road at Brgy Tanawe, Toril District, Davao City was exploded some 10 meters away from an oncoming convoy of TF Davao and DCPO that were responding to the killing of a former soldier. None was hit by the blast but it triggered a firefight.
The joint police-army team was on its was to Sitio Colorado, Brgy Sibulan, Toril District where the dead body of former Sgt Robert Tambobon was earlier found after he was abducted by armed men the night before.
It was the seventh incident in the region and the third in Davao City.
The Ottawa Convention where the Philippines is a signatory prohibits the use of landmine and other anti-personnel weapons. The use of IED is also abhorred by civilized nations as it endangered civilians as well and was proven time and again to cause more harm to the populace than the conventional military explosives.
The CPP-NPA-NDF has been disregarding popular calls to renounce violence and instead negotiate peace with the government. (ANAD PARTLIST-MINDANAO INFONEWS BUREAU)
