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TAGUM CITY, Davao del Norte The militant Kilusang Mayo Uno in Southern Mindanao region slammed the
military on Wednesday, for the spate of killings and human rights violations in Compostela Valley, including

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The military has not commented on allegations that suspected security forces were behind the killing of
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Jennifer Villasante Erbito in Compostela town.

However, it said the KMU had no basis to accuse soldiers of attacking civilian communities in Pantukan and
Mabini towns and killing a miner in the process.

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The 43-year-old Erbito was tending her banana cue stall

at Purok 12 in Barangay Poblacion when shot by a man

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around 11:30 a.m., the police said.

Chief Insp. Kristopher Sabsal, Compostela police station
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Amado Albaciente, Erbitos common-law husband said

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she was a coordinator for the governments conditional

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cash transfer (CCT) program in their community and as

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impunity in the name of big corporate mining and agricultural interests, said KMU chair Carlo Olalo,
adding that Erbitos killing came just days after the murder of an anti-mining activist and community leader
Teresita Navacilla in Pantukan town.
Rights group Karapatan has accused the military of killing Navacilla to silence her strong opposition to the

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entry of the Filipino-Canadian mining rm, Nadecor-St. Augustine, in Kingking village, Pantukan, but the
mining rm denied the allegations, calling these baseless and mere fabrication.
Navacilla was an eectual liaison between the (rm) and the small-scale miners and was a recipient of
various corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects of the company, the mining rm said in a statement.
But Olalo said: Compostela Valley is a resource-rich province targeted for plunder by foreign corporations
in connivance with local capitalists, landlords and politicians. As a result, the province is marred by heavy
military presence creating a climate oppressive to peoples democratic rights, including their right to
organize and form unions and associations. Military repression of workers rights in Compostela Valley is
not new and sadly, has not stopped.

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Hanimay Suazo, spokesperson of Karapatan-Southern Mindanao, said soldiers from the Philippine Armys
46th and 71st Infantry Battalions also conducted indiscriminate ring and bombings in mining and civilian
communities in Mabini and Pantukan towns also on Tuesday, resulting in the death of a small-scale miner
and the wounding of several civilians.
Suazo said soldiers also red rie grenades toward civilian communities in Post 4, Napnapan village,
Pantukan town, damaging a house and a chapel, and soldiers allegedly ordered a stop to the mining
operations.
But the military on Wednesday said an encounter had ensued between Army troops and New Peoples
Army rebels in Pantukan, resulting in the death of an alleged rebel identied as Ronel Paas alias Dondon,
35; and the wounding of several others, among them a 14-year old identied as Dong.
Capt. Rhyan Batchar, public aairs chief of the armys 10th Infantry Division, said Corporal Boskie Carcellar
was also wounded following an encounter at Tagdangua village.
The soldiers were running after a group of rebels led by alias Raden, who were responsible for the series
of atrocities in Pantukan when the troops chanced upon some 20 rebels, triggering a 20-minute reght,
said Batchar.
An assault rie believed to be left behind by the eeing rebels was recovered at the encounter site, the

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military ocial said.

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He said some of the rebels who ed in the thick of battle sought refuge inside the mining pits and were
pursued by soldiers but the government troops could not catch up with the insurgents as the tunnels were
extensive and narrow.
Last week, three soldiers, including a young lieutenant, were killed in two clashes between rebels and the
46th IB troops in Pantukan. Two soldiers were also hurt.
Batchar said the Army has been coordinating with the Commission on Human Rights and the Department
of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to look into the case of alias Dong, who can be considered as a
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