7 NPA rebels yield in Sultan Kudarat

ZAMBOANGA CITY: Seven members of the New People's Army have surrendered to the military in Mindanao, where security forces are fighting two fronts — the war on insurgents and winning hearts and minds in the countryside — in an effort to end decades of bloody war in the South that had killed tens of thousands of people.

Maj. Gen. Alfredo Rosario Jr., chief of the Western Mindanao Command, said the rebels surrendered to the 7th Infantry Battalion on Sunday in the town of Isulan in Sultan Kudarat province, a stronghold of communist insurgents in the restive region.