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Philippines: Communist rebels attack after truce
AP - Monday, December 29
MANILA, Philippines - Philippine communist rebels resumed attacks after a three-day Christmas truce ended, killing one soldier and wounding two in a series of attacks over weekend, the military said Sunday.
On Saturday, at least 20 New People's Army rebels clashed with army troops in southern Agusan del Sur's Tubay township, killing one soldier and wounding another, military spokesman Lt. Col. Ernesto Torres said.
That clash followed an earlier one in the central province of Western Samar where 20 rebels attacked government forces, wounding one soldier, Torres said.
On Sunday, the rebels swooped down on a Globe Telecom Inc. telephone tower site in northern Quezon province, taking a company security guard's revolver and razing equipment at the tower, according to Torres. No one was hurt in the attack.
Army spokesman Lt. Celeste Frank Sayson said Globe facilities were targeted because the company has rejected guerrillas demands for "revolutionary taxes" _ money demanded by guerrillas from businesses that operate in their strongholds.
As the rebels' holiday cease-fire ended Friday, the group vowed to step up their insurgency in the next five years and move it closer to their goal of establishing a Marxist state.
At the same time, the government has pledged to increase its efforts to crush the 40-year-old insurgency by 2010, said Avelino Razon, deputy director-general of the government's policy-making National Security Council.
But both the rebels and the government have announced another truce from Dec. 31-Jan. 1.
Peace talks between the two sides were suspended in 2004 after the rebels accused the government of convincing the U.S. to add the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army to its list of terrorist organizations.
In an informal meeting brokered by Norway early this month, rebel negotiators rejected an indefinite cease-fire pushed by the government as a condition for resuming formal talks. No new meetings have been scheduled.
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