1995 Ipil massacre
Ipil massacre of 1995 | |
---|---|
Part of the Moro conflict | |
Ipil Ipil (Philippines) | |
Coordinates | Coordinates: 7°46′54″N 122°35′26″E / 7.781667°N 122.590556°E |
Date | April 4, 1995 |
Target | Civilians |
Attack type | Armed assault; Terrorism; Mass murder |
Weapons | Automatic weapons, Grenades and Rocket Propelled Grenades |
Deaths | 53 |
Injured | 48+ |
Perpetrators | Abu Sayyaf[1] |
The 1995 Ipil massacre occurred on the morning of April 4, 1995, in the municipality of Ipil in Zamboanga Sibugay province when approximately 200 heavily armed Abu Sayyaf militants[1] fired upon residents, strafed civilian homes, plundered banks, took up to 30 hostages and then burned the center of the town to the ground.[2][3]
The militants allegedly arrived in the town by boat and bus, and a number of them had been dressed in military fatigues.
The town's Chief of Police was reportedly killed in the attack and close to a billion pesos were looted from eight commercial banks.[4] Army commandos pursued some rebel gunmen in nearby mountains while officials said that the rebels were looting farms and seizing civilians as "human shields" as they fled the town of[5] About 40 rebels, who may have taken hostages, were cornered in a school compound west of Ipil on April 6 when an elite army unit attacked. In the fighting that followed, the television station GMA reported, 11 civilians were killed.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b East, Robert (September 1, 2014). Terror Truncated: The Decline of the Abu Sayyaf Group from the Crucial Year 2002. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443866699. Retrieved January 21, 2018 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Troops seek killers of 53 in Philippines". Ocala Star-Banner. April 12, 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
- ^ "Gunmen raid Philippine town, 100 dead". Times-Union. Associated Press. April 4, 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2013.
- ^ "VICTORIA CALAGUIAN: Photojournalist". L.A. Zamboanga Times. December 22, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- ^ a b "World News Briefs; Filipino Troops Corner Rebels After Attack". The New York Times. April 7, 1995. Retrieved March 23, 2010.
- Terrorist incidents in the Philippines in the 1990s
- Mass murder in 1995
- Massacres in 1995
- Mass shootings in Asia
- 1995 in the Philippines
- April 1995 events in Asia
- History of Zamboanga Sibugay
- 1995 crimes in the Philippines