KIDAPAWAN City–Communist guerrillas operating in the hinterlands of North Cotabato and Bukidnon admitted the killing of a 37-year-old widow whom they accused of giving the Army tips that led to the brutal slay of one of their rebel commanders in Sta. Cruz town in Davao del Sur.
In a text message sent to media in Kidapawan City, a ranking official of the New People’s Army’s Front 53 yesterday said they meted death on Jocelyn Yala, a widow from President Roxas town in North Cotabato after they learned she gave the 39th Infantry Battalion vital information as to the whereabouts of “Commander Kiram,” one a rebel leader.
Yala, the rebel said, was a former NPA member who yielded to the Army in 2015 and became a military asset.
The NPA official, who requested not to be identified, said Kiram died when ambushed by soldiers along the boundaries of Bansalan in Davao del Sur and Makilala in North Cotabato two months ago.
Yala’s body was found at a vacant lot along the highway in Greenhills, President Roxas, around 7 am Tuesday, days after she went missing.
“During the interrogation, she admitted having given the Army tips on how they could possibly execute Commander Kiram,” he said.
He also read on Yala’s mobile phone the conversations she had with an official of the 39IB a day before Kiram was murdered.
Commander Kiram was reportedly a relative of a nother ranking NPA leaders in the region. (malu cadelina manar of mindanews)
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