Who rules? Not the rebels, says Aquino

President Benigno Aquino III and the Guingona family shrugged off the claim of communist rebels that the weekend attack against the convoy of Ruthie Guingona, wife of former vice president Teofisto Guingona, was only an act of “self-defense.” Ruthie, the outgoing mayor of the remote and mountainous Gingoog town in Mindanao, survived the ambush but two of her staff members, who were among those that the guerillas claimed fired at their checkpoint, were killed. After initially asking for forgiveness from the Guingona family, the rebel group New Peoples Army flip-flopped and insisted that their checkpoint operations will proceed as the elections draw near. The military has accused the communist guerrillas of extorting money from politicians in exchange for letting them campaign.


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