Reds warn Bulacan mayor on Angat raid

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has warned a Bulacan town mayor to refrain from taking any punitive action on his constituents for the Sept. 26 attack of Maoist guerrillas on a quarry site along the Angat River, where millions of pesos worth of heavy equipment was destroyed.

In a statement, the CPP maintained that communist guerrilla raids which destroy privately-owned property, such as the NPA’s assault on the Angat quarry, were "not acts of terrorism."

The farmers have long opposed the quarry operations of the firms Mega Crushing Plant, Milestone Crushing and Amano Crushing along the Angat River. — Benjie Villa