Monday, April 11, 2011

Security force dispatched to Lubo, Tanudan to pacify clan conflict

By Peter A. Balocnit , PIA-CAR/Kalinga

TABUK, Kalinga – Security forces from the army and the police are now dispatched in Lubo, Tanudan to pacify the looming clan conflict that claimed two more lives this month.
Fourteen enlisted personnel from the 21st Infantry Battalion, 501st Brigade under 1Lt. Aries Apduhan are now stationed at Lubo to augment local police to fprestall the escalation of hostilities.
Another team from the provincial PNP mobile group will join the peacekeeping force as soon as assignments of personnel in other risk areas are put in place to avoid a security vacuum.
Tanudan Mayor Johnwell Tigganay earlier requested for a peacekeeping force to be deployed in the area. The request was made through the Provincial Peace and Order Council chaired by Gov. Jocel Baac.
Baac directed during the PPOC meeting last week to send a composite team to avert further bloodshed. A composite team was immediately organized and a detachment was established in the conflict zone.
It may be recalled that Roger Cullapoy and Sallaya Condaya of the Angnganay clan were killed in separate incidents the past weeks allegedly by their enemies in a vendetta.
Tiggangay said a Scene of the Crime Operative team went to Lubo to conduct investigations on the killing of Condaya and criminal charges were filed in court against the suspects. **

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