“I’d like to hear from the NPA, either mag issue si-la’g statement, explanation or they would like I’ll go to them,” Duterte told report-ers last Tuesday afternoon during the 11th year com-memoration of the bomb blast at the old airport in 2003.

Duterte said that if the NPA admits the crime he wants to know why they were using this kind of war tactic even if it is against the Geneva Convention on arti-cles of war.

He said what the sus-pects did was a ‘double whammy’ on the part of Armed Forces since the military only wanted to re-trieve a soldier who was wounded in an encounter in Bansalan, Davao del Sur.

Duterte said that the NPA used to complain against the war strategy of the government mili-tary that was against the Articles of War of Geneva Convention, but they them-selves were guilty of the

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CROSS OF ASHES. A young boy gives Archbishop Romulo Valles a hearty smile while being marked with a cross of ashes on his forehead during yesterday afternoon’s Ash Wednesday mass celebration at San Pedro Cathedral in Davao City. Lean Daval Jr.

PRAYERS FOR THE VICTIMS. Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte, together with Sister Jo Bacaltos, lights up a candle and offers a prayer for the victims of the old Davao City Airport bombing in Sasa during the tragic incident’s 11th anniver-sary commemoration Tuesday afternoon. Lean Daval Jr.

DAVAO City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte wants the New People’s Army (NPA) to issue a state-ment regarding the landmine explosion that blew up three ambulances and injured five civilians and 12 soldiers in Davao del Sur last Sunday.