BY GILBERT P. BAYORAN The suspected New People’s Army rebel killed in a gunbattle on July 19 in Brgy. Sandayao, Guihulngan City, Negros Occidental, was
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
ENCOUNTER. Some of the items recovered after a five-minute firefight between 62nd Infantry Battalion troops and New People's Army rebels in Barangay Sandayao, Guihulngan City in Negros Oriental on Wednesday (July 20, 2022). A rebel was killed in the encounter. (Photo courtesy of 62IB, Philippine Army) DUMAGUETE CITY - A fighter of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People's Army (CPP-NPA) was killed in an encounter with Army troops of the 62nd Infantry Battalion (62IB) in Barangay Sandayao, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Wednesday morning. A report from the 62IB said the troops exchanged gunfire with about five guerillas in Sitio Taluktok for about five minutes, after which they recovered the body of the slain rebel identified as Pompeo D. Landesa, 56, a resident of Sitio Dako in the same village. Landesa was a member of the NPA's Central Negros 1 (CN1) under the Komiteng Rehiyon Negros/Cebu/Bohol/Siquijor and was involved in various murder cases and violatio