The World - News from May 14, 1989
Philippine soldiers aided by a former Communist rebel found three mass graves where the remains of scores of people killed by guerrillas are believed buried, a military spokesman said. Those buried in the graves, just south of Manila, are thought to have been killed by the Communist New People’s Army in a purge of suspected spies in their ranks after arrests of rebel leaders last year. Reporters said they counted 28 bodies in a mass grave in the town of Kavinti in Laguna province.
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