COTABATO CITY, Aug. 13 -- =Farmers and local officials of Kidapawan City's seven far-flung barangays on Monday declared the New People's Army (NPA) persona non-grata during a protest rally on Monday.
The protesters denounced the NPA's alleged atrocities, as well as the communist rebels' "revolutionary tax" that often targets farmers in rural areas.
"Get out of our communities," one of the placards read, as hundreds of residents and their village officials marched along major streets in Kidapawan to denounce the communist rebel movement.
One of the protesters, who requested that his name not be mentioned, said they are fed up with the NPA's "deception and forced taxation" on farmers.
The NPA, he said, regularly collected "revolutionary t...