By Florence F. Hibionada An elaborate sabotage plan is reportedly underway with Western Visayas as principal target. The perpetrators, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) here said, are the communist-terrorists New People's Army (NPA). The NPAs, whatever is left of them, is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) – National Democratic Front (NDF). Execution, the reports continued, has officially began with the initial attack made Wednesday evening at the United Philippine Drilling Company in Negros Occidental. A parallel attack was also slated in a Globe telecommunications tower in Lambunao, Iloilo yet foiled by Army forces in the area. The Negros Occidental incident saw about twenty armed NPAs with the security guard disarmed and robbed of personal belongings. The drilling equipment was also...
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