Insurgency

Mayen Jaymalin – The Philippine Star February 14, 2022 | 12:00am MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) yesterday advised workers and trade groups anew to file criminal complaints against those who “red-tag” them.

by Ghio Ong – The Philippine Star, 19 Dec 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A Manila court has dismissed murder charges filed against 15 communist leaders for their alleged role in the so-called “Hilongos mass grave” in Inopacan, Leyte 31 years ago.

By: Tetch Torres-Tupas, INQINQUIRER.net, 14 Jul 2021 MANILA, Philippines – Labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) has asked the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) to identify the people behind several social media posts that tagged them and other cause-oriented organizations as part of the communist group.

MANILA – A total of 61 members of Anakpawis, a sectoral front organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF), severed ties with the communist group and voluntarily surrendered to the government.

A thorough review and evaluation of PH-US ties long overdue Next article By Jose ‘Pete’ T. Arce Jr., 1 Jun 2021 THE armed Philippine communist insurgency bred martyrs to its cause, posers after ego and gain and enormous collateral damage in its wake. For more than half a century, it raged from the cities to…

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By Cecilio Arillo, Businessmirror, Aug 29, 2018 Part Four The legitimacy of the Aquino administration THE lack of legitimacy haunts the Aquino administration from the day it unnecessarily usurped power from a duly elected president. According to a young and prominent lawyer from Batangas province who was murdered in front of the Manila Hilton sometime…

By Cecilio Arillo, Businessmirror, Aug 27, 2018 Part Three Corruption abounds in the Aquino government WHILE the insurgency situation worsened in 1988, “corruption abounds” in the Aquino government. Joaquin “Chino” Roces, publisher and one of the owners of The Manila Times, in the course of receiving an honor award from Mrs. Aquino, said:

By Cecilio Arillo, Businessmirror, Aug 22, 2018 Part 2 Divided and ill-trained military THE once active Grand Alliance for Democracy, a Philippine opposition party, had revealed that “the Philippine military, which was then grossly divided, was failing in its task to contain the rising tide of communist insurgency.” Gen. Richard Stillwell echoed this observation, thus:…

By Cecilio Arillo, Businessmirror, Aug 20, 2018 Part One IN the words of journalist Ross Munro, a well-known political observer of Southeast Asian politics and author of the revealing story on the rise and fall of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge, “The Philippines is saddled with a communist insurgency that is the fastest-growing, most threatening and…the…

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Nov 27, 2017 PRESIDENT Duterte’s decision to end all peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), its New People’s Army and its dummy organization, the National Democratic Front, dismantles the illusion, propagated not just by the communists but also by the president’s negotiators, that the peace…

Did the ‘oligarchs’ – big business owners and Mindanaoan political elites – gain anything from the collapse of the talks? What about the national security establishment? The answer, I find, is mixed. by Luke Lischin, Rappler, Aug 23, 2017 Like others who did not assume that the peace talks between the government of the Philippines…

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by John Paolo Bencito, Manila Standard, May 11, 2017 Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison has admitted that the leaders of the National Democratic Front negotiating panel based in Utretch do not have control over the rebels’ movements despite the ongoing peace negotiations between the government and the communist rebels.

Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 08, 2017 TAGUM CITY—At least P109-million worth of vehicles and equipment were destroyed after communist rebels stormed a nickel mining firm in Mati City, Davao Oriental, on Saturday, authorities on Sunday said.

By: Frinston Lim, Inquirer Mindanao, Apr 30, 2017 DAVAO CITY – Fourteen persons, including a woman, were detained for questioning by authorities during operations to hunt down about 100 communist rebels who attacked several businesses owned by the Lorenzo family in Southern Mindanao on Saturday, officials on Sunday said. Ten of the arrested were released…

FIRST PERSON By Alex Magno (The Philippine Star), Apr 11, 2017 In their last meeting earlier this month, the negotiating panels of the Philippine government and the CPP-NPA agreed to an “interim” bilateral ceasefire agreement – whatever that may mean.

by Ninoy Sison, 06 April 2012 Through the years the Chinese secret service has constantly kept a keen eye on the Philippines, being strategically located in the South China Sea, long considered by China as a Chinese. Control early Philippine operations was handled directly from Yan’an, Mao Zedong’s stronghold and revolutionary base in mountainous Shanxi…

By Jasper Y. Arcalas, Businessmirror, Apr 3, 2017 Banana farmers on Monday asked the government to step up its campaign against members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who have been attacking banana plantations in Mindanao for not paying “revolutionary taxes”.

By: Melvin Gascon, INQInquirer, Mar 28, 2017 TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan — The New People’s Army on Tuesday (March 28) took responsibility for the burning of heavy equipment in Cagayan and Quirino provinces on March 26, five days before the communist rebels were expected to reinstall a unilateral ceasefire.

By Marichu A. Villanueva, (The Philippine Star), Mar 22, 2017 Whatever emotional ranting we hear from homeless families for being poor, this is not justification for any one of them to willfully take over and occupy vacant units in government housing projects. Legitimate owners of units in this government housing intended for public school teachers,…

Ralph Jennings, CONTRIBUTOR, Forbes, Mar 21, 2017 The Philippines is a democracy always being tested by violent anti-government rebel groups. You hear a lot about the well-armed Muslim fronts that want more autonomy in the majority Catholic country and don’t mind battling troops from Manila or slaying foreign tourists. But one of the most nagging…

By Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star), Mar 8, 2017 Peace talks between the government and communist rebels were going well when everything suddenly collapsed. Too bad, since the two sides already had inked three major agreements in three months in Oslo and Rome. Still, President Rodrigo Duterte had to call it all off. Guerrillas in…

BY THE MANILA TIMES, Manila Times, Mar 1, 2017 The Department of Energy (DOE) strongly condemned the attack launched by the New People’s Army (NPA) on a hydropower plant project in Barangay Lumbayao, Valencia City in Bukidnon last Saturday.

By Cai Ordinario, Businessmirror, Feb 19, 2017 Violence and conflict in the Philippines had cost victims P3.05 trillion in economic losses, lost productivity and medical expenses, according to the Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

By Alex Magno (The Philippine Star), Feb 14, 2017 When President Rodrigo Duterte lifted government’s ceasefire declaration and ordered the troops to prepare for battle, the communists misread his intent.

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Feb 13, 2017 Including raid on Henry Sy’s Pico de Loro resort in Nasugbu THE communist New People’s Army (NPA) undertook 18 armed attacks against government forces in February alone, or at the height of the peace talks, according to information in the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)…

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Feb. 10, 2017 Last of a three-part series THE Philippine communist movement in the 1970s recruited not only the best and the brightest of the generation that came of age in that period, perhaps also one of the most patriotic,mostly in their teens and early twenties, yet who were…