Lt. Gen. Greg Almerol, commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command (File photo) DAVAO CITY - Lt. Gen. Greg Almerol, commander of the Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom), on Friday lauded the combined efforts of the military, police, former rebels, and ocal government units for clearing the remnants of the communist New People's Army Sub-Regional Committee 5 (NPA-SRC5). The Eastmincom statement came after various NPA members who were former students of the so-called "lumad schools" and its underground mass organization supporters continued to surface and scrap the local communist armed struggle. On February 28, a total of 206 indigenous individuals here who were members of various NPA front groups surrendered and declared "pagsalikway" or rejection of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)-NPA in a ceremony at the Balimba Hills, Sitio JBL, Barangay Sto. Nino in Talaingod, Davao del Norte. The surrenderers included eight members of the NPA Sub-Regional Guerr