VOLUNTARY SURRENDER. Three suspected members of the CPP-NPA and two farmers surrendered and turned over firearms and explosives to the police in Sta. Catalina, Negros Oriental on Monday (Feb. 21, 2022). The number of rebel surrenderers has been snowballing in the past months in different parts of the country. (Photo courtesy of the NOPPO) DUMAGUETE CITY - Three suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) have surrendered to the police and turned over firearms following a "pulong-pulong" or dialogue in Barangay Nagbinlod, Sta. Catalina town in Negros Oriental. The Negros Oriental Provincial Police Office (NOPPO) identified the surrenderers as alias Jigo, 38, a farmer, of Sitio Nahayag in Barangay Talalac; alias Ipir, 24, farmer and also of Nahayag; and alias Joce, 61, of Sitio Batang-batangan in Barangay Talalac, all in Sta. Catalina. The three turned themselves in to the 705th Maneuver Company of the Regional Mobile Force Battal