{"id":23406,"date":"2014-08-25T00:03:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=23406"},"modified":"2014-08-25T00:03:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T16:03:16","slug":"suspected-filipino-communist-rebels-burn-light-plane-small-building-in-latest-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/08\/25\/suspected-filipino-communist-rebels-burn-light-plane-small-building-in-latest-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Filipino communist rebels burn light plane, small building in latest attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/agusan-del-norte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23407\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/agusan-del-norte.jpg\" alt=\"agusan del norte\" width=\"512\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/agusan-del-norte.jpg 512w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/agusan-del-norte-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Suspected communist guerrillas burned a small plane used for aerial agricultural spraying and a warehouse near an airstrip in the southern Philippines in their latest attack, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>At least six New People&#8217;s Army rebels disguised as policemen barged into the government-owned Philippine Agricultural Aviation Corp. late Saturday in far-flung Tubay town in Agusan del Norte province and used aviation gas stored in the compound to set a parked single-engine plane ablaze, police Inspector Napoleon Boiser said.<\/p>\n<p>Boiser, who heads the police forces in coastal Tubay, said the gunmen, who identified themselves as communist insurgents, also burned a warehouse and an electric generator after disarming two guards. They took two shotguns before fleeing, Boiser said by phone.<\/p>\n<p>The Moist rebels may have launched the attack after failing to extort money from the aviation firm or a foreign-owned banana plantation, which leases the small plane for aerial spraying, Boiser said, adding that it was a challenge to secure the remote town of nearly 22,000 people with his 22-strong police force.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels, who have been fighting since 1969 in one of Asia&#8217;s longest-running Marxist insurgencies, have escalated attacks against agricultural plantations and mining companies that they accuse of exploiting workers or damaging the environment.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have further dimmed prospects of a resumption of stalled peace negotiations. In contrast, government talks with the largest Muslim rebel group in the country&#8217;s south have progressed and led to the signing of a new Muslim autonomy deal in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Suspected communist guerrillas burned a small plane used for aerial agricultural spraying and a warehouse near an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":23407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}