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From: The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily

manila • Philippine troops will train private militias to protect foreign mining firms and other companies operating in rural areas from communist rebel attacks, the armed forces chief said.

A soldier would be assigned to each of the local militia groups that would be mainly deployed to mining companies under threat from the New People’s Army (NPA).

The communist rebels have vowed to attack multinational firms given mining concessions when the sector was opened up to foreign investors in 2005.

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