VOL. 8 ISSUE 200 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 2016
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ONLY IN THE PHILIPPINES. So much for road safety, a motorcycle transport more popularly known as ‘HabalHabal’ carries eleven young passengers along a highway in Mati City. The passengers are loaded in a rattan-woven baskets strewn with two round timbers. John Emmanuel Pang
AFP: BACK TO THE OFFENSIVE
With SOMO over, military to step up operations EDGEDAVAO Sports By ARMANDO B. FENEQUITO JR.
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HE Eastern Mindanao Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP-EastMinCom) will now return to its deliberate offensive operations after the lifting of Suspension of Military Operation (SOMO) on Sunday. Speaking in yesterday’s Kapehan sa Dabaw at SM City Annex, EastMinCom public information officer Captain Al-
berto Caber said the communities in the hinterlands have requested for a visitation. “Tuloy -tuloy na po itong aming visitations, patrolya kung ano po yung naging kaugalian na ginagawa ng mga kasundaluhan ng Eastern Mindanao Command (We will now continue our visitations and patrols which is the usual routine of the soldiers of East-
ern Mindanao Command),” he said. The AFP declared a SOMO last December following with the Christmas suspension of offensive operations by the New People’s Army (NPA). The unilateral declaration of SOMO was recommended by the Department of National Defense but did not include law enforcement operations of
the Philippine National Police against threat groups and other wanted personalities. The NPA, however, attacked two military detachments and a community security patrol on December 23. The NPA attacked a military detachment in Bitaugan, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur around 9:20 a.m. and another
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