Vice President Leni Robredo condemns the deaths of Far Eastern University football player Keith Absalon and his cousin, Nolven caused by a land mine planted by communist rebels
"Land mines are murder. We condemn this incident without qualification," Robredo said in a statement on Wednesday.Robredo also stressed that the Ottawa Treaty banned the use of anti-personnel land mines.," Robredo said.The victims died after an improvised bomb went off while they were cycling along Barangay Anas in Masbate province last June 6.
The Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army, took"The communist group has vowed to extend compensation to the families of the victims, and to cooperate with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in the Joint Monitoring Committee should a complaint be filed.
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