Rebel in Holland urges RP attacks

Rebel in Holland urges RP attacks

MANILA (AFP): Philippine officials are to lodge a formal complaint with the Netherlands over an Utrecht-based communist leader's order for guerrillas to step up attacks against Filipino troops.

A senior aide to President Joseph Estrada said on Thursday Manila was incensed over comments made by National Democratic Front (NDF) chairman Luis Jalandoni on an NDF website.

Jalandoni advised the New People's Army (NPA) to "intensify its tactical offensives against the armed forces, the Philippine National Police and paramilitary forces."

Zamora said the Philippine government will send the evidence to the Dutch embassy here to support Manila's earlier request to have Jalandoni and several other exiled communist guerrilla leaders expelled from the Netherlands.