MANILA, Philippines—The New People's Army (NPA) command in southern Mindanao has owned up to the abduction on Friday of a soldier and a policeman in Compostela Valley as the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) vowed to "frustrate" the counterinsurgency program of newly appointed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Bautista. "General Bautista cannot stop the growth momentum of the NPA," said the CPP in a statement e-mailed to the media after Bautista assumed the top AFP post on Thursday. The CPP said the military continued to commit the same abuses—such as human rights violations—that it did during martial l...
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