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Saturday, May 28, 2005
Rebels vow 'people's justice' to captors
By Richel V. Umel
PAGADIAN CITY -- The New People's Army operating in Zamboanga del Sur disowned any links with the three hostage takers, which manage to escape in the hinterlands of Lakewood, Sibugay province.
NPA Western Mindanao chapter spokesman Ismael Marte said amid questions by authorities regarding the failure of Bishop Emmanuel Cabajar of the Diocese of Pagadian City to convince the perpetrators to surrender.
Sources said the NPA rebels operating in the area are exerting efforts to locate the three suspects believed to be responsible in the series of highway robberies in Zamboanga del Norte and Misamis Occidental in order to bring them to the so-called "People's Court."
During the hostage crisis standoff, which lasted 27 hours the three hostage-takers, claimed they have their own unit and they are committed to undertake their mission.
Bishop Cabajar said a certain Jun Jun, one of the three armed men, told him that the hostage taking was a "business" for them.
In a bus terminal, passengers and drivers who managed to witness the hostage drama in Pulakan claimed that the three are purely robbers and who hails from one of the coastal towns of Misamis Occidental.
Police authorities also disclosed that there were already two highway robbery that took place towards Dipolog City and Bonofacio, Misamis Occidental last week.
The Philippine National Police and the military had organized a "Task Force Tugis" to run after this activity.
(May 28, 2005 issue)
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