SLAIN REBEL. The family of a New People's Army member who was killed in an encounter with government troops claims his body on Thursday (July 21, 2022). The Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in Guihulngan City, the Army, local police, and the local government gave assistance to the rebel's family. (Photo courtesy of 62IB, Philippine Army) DUMAGUETE CITY - The local Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (TF-ELCAC) in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental has given assistance to the family of a Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) rebel who died in an encounter with soldiers on Wednesday. Juvita and Roel Landesa, the wife and son, respectively, of the slain NPA rebel, Pompeo D. Landesa, claimed his body at a funeral home in Guihulngan City on Thursday, a report from the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army said. Landesa, 56, of Sitio Dako in Barangay Sandayao, was tagged as a member of the NPA's Central Negros 1 (CN