SENATOR NINOY AQUINO, Sultan Kudarat — Tired and confused, another 10 members of the communist New Peoples Army (NPA) decided to surrender to the local police here on Sunday afternoon.
Sr. Supt. Raul Supiter, Sultan Kudarat police director, said the surrenderers belonged to the NPA Guerilla Front 73 Cherry Mobile Platoon under a certain Commander Macmac.
Supiter said a police team fetched the rebels, who all belong to Manobo-Dulangan tribe, from Sitio Lee Mangga, Barangay Midtungok, some 10 kilometers away from the Sen. Ninoy Aquino town center.
Chief Insp. Aldrin Gonzales, speaking for police in Region 12, said village chair Mamerto Parong helped in negotiating for the surrender of the rebels.
Gonzales said the surrenderers, a woman and nine men, were all residents of Barangay Baluan, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat, but had been with the NPA operating in the mountains of Sen. Ninoy Aquino.
The surrenderers turned over to police authorities three cal. 45 pistols with ammunition, homemade Garand rifle, two cal. 38 revolvers, one M-14 rifle and one homemade shotgun with ammunition. (Edwin Fernandez/PNA)
