ZAMBOANGA CITY: Communist rebels have destroyed a rubber tree plantation after farmers rejected extortion demands in the province of Surigao del Sur, the army said Friday.
It said some 15 New People’s Army rebels swooped down on the village of Bacolod and chopped off trees and uprooted thousands of seedlings. The farmers belong to the Bacolod Upland Farmers Association, according to Captain Alberto Caber, an army spokesman.
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