<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"> Philippines-</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">01.22.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Suspected members of the New People's Army chopped down over 15,000 fully grown banana plants ready for harvest at a Dole Philippines plantation. The Dole-Stanfilco plantation is located in Anahao Daan village in Tago town, Surigao del Sur. </p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Chief Lt. Gen., Emmanuel Bautista, Armed Forces of the Philippines, has made the commitment to continue the government's counter-insurgency program Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) Bayanihan.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>According to a report in GMA News, Caraga regional police spokesman Superintendent Martin Gamba said the cost of the damage may be in the millions of pesos.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>In Bautista's assumption speech last Thursday, he appealed to those involved in the armed struggle to give up their fight in order to allow the Philippines to move forward.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>Gamba also noted that the Tago police station was intensifying its efforts in monitoring the movement of the suspected rebels while police stations conducted checkpoints.</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href=" http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/291198/economy/agricultureandmining/15-000-banana-plants-in-dole-plantation-chopped-down-npa-suspected" target="_new"> Dole </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
