By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 04:20pm (Mla time) 01/24/2007
MANILA, Philippines -- Army troops have recovered the remains of a policeman believed to have been killed by communist rebels from a mountain grave in the northern province of Pangasinan close to two years after he went missing, a military spokesman said.
Two New People's Army (NPA) returnees, who claimed to have witnessed how Senior Police Officer 4 Esteban Bravo was executed, led soldiers from the 71st Infantry Battalion to his gravesite on Mt. Baldos, Maseil-seil village, Umingan town at around 1:30 p.m. last Monday, said Army public affairs chief Major Ernesto Torres.
NPA members allegedly kidnapped Bravo in the early morning of February 3, 2005 in the subvillage of Saranay, Saloc village, Sto. Domingo town in Nueva Ecija province, Torres said.
Bravo reportedly drew the rebels' ire for his involvement in
operations that led to the arrest of an NPA commander, a certain alias Berong in Nueva Ecija’s Lupao town sometime 2001. The rebel leader was later freed on bail.
The rebel returnees claimed it was Berong who shot Bravo, the spokesman said.
The NPA is the 7,100-strong armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It has been waging a guerilla campaign on the countryside for 37 years.
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