NDF accuses troops of rape, torture of captured rebels

DAVAO CITY: The National Democratic Front (NDF), the political arm of the communist rebels, which is negotiating peace with the incoming Duterte administration, has accused government troops of raping a captured female fighter and torturing two others before executing them in Davao City recently.

Rubi del Mundo, a spokesman for the NDF in southern Philippines, tagged members of the 72nd Infantry Battalion and pro-government militias from the notorious Alamara forces to be behind the killings.