The communist leader killed in a gun battle, was not a mere consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, according to a military official. /PDI
Acosta and his companion Albert Jimenez were killed in an alleged encounter with government troopers in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental, past 2 a.m. on Nov. 30.
“The soldiers first strafed the house of the Francisco family where Acosta and Jimenez were resting before they were taken forcefully and then ‘salvaged,’” the NDFP statement read. Meanwhile, the rights group Karapatan on Thursday called on the Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent investigation into the alleged summary execution of Acosta and Jimenez.
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