Philippines: New Peoples Army seizes guns from mining company

On the evening of May 29, 2009, a pla­toon of the 3rd Pulang Bagani Com­pa­ny-NPA dis­armed anoth­er 1102nd Provin­cial Mobile Group-PNP squad assigned as a secu­ri­ty force of the APEX Min­ing Cor­po­ra­tion in Barangay Masara, Maco, Com­val.

On the evening of May 29, 2009, a pla­toon of the 3rd Pulang Bagani Com­pa­ny-NPA dis­armed anoth­er 1102nd Provin­cial Mobile Group-PNP squad assigned as a secu­ri­ty force of the APEX Min­ing Cor­po­ra­tion in Barangay Masara, Maco, Com­val. Swift­ly seized were five high-pow­ered rifles con­sist­ing of four (4) M16 armalites and one (1) M14 rifle after being sur­prised by the raid­ing NPA unit that entered the com­pa­ny com­pound. Since the tar­get PNP unit did not make any armed resis­tance, they did not have any casu­al­ty.

The min­ing firm which is owned by the Lon­don-based Crew Min­er­als Cor­po­ra­tion was pun­ished for the con­tin­u­ing envi­ron­men­tal destruc­tion its oper­a­tion has caused. One such dev­as­ta­tion was the land­slide in Barangay Masara last year that caused deaths and dis­place­ment in two barangays. Also, the 1102nd PMG-PNP in Com­val forms part of the Invest­ment Defense Force (IDF) — the Arroyo regime’s armed com­po­nent that direct­ly pro­tects the inter­ests of large min­ing com­pa­nies and big agribusi­ness, and vio­lates the inher­ent rights of poor peas­ants and lumads to their liveli­hood and ances­tral lands.

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http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/statements/stmts.pl?author=mac;date=090531;lang=eng