Insurgency

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Feb 8, 2017 The Philippine elite and all Presidents after Marcos left it alone to grow THERE are several unique features of our unlucky country that distinguish us from the rest of booming Southeast Asian nations, among them:

EVEN WITH TALKS, NPA RAIDED SY’S PICO DE LORO IN NASUGBU BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Feb. 6, 2017 PRESIDENT Duterte announced in the past two days the virtual end of his peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines (masked as the National Democratic Front), mainly because the communists’ armed groups have…

BY RIGOBERTO D. TIGLAO, Manila Times, Nov 30, 2016 THE mobilization by the Communist Party of the Philippines and its organizations against the burial of strongman Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani highlights the utter ideological and intellectual bankruptcy of what was once the vanguard of radical thought and social movements in the…

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas torched construction equipment being used in a government road project in La Paz town, Agusan del Sur Friday.

MANILA, Philippines – Communist insurgents took advantage of the government-declared Christmas and New Year’s unilateral truce by attacking and burning down the heavy equipment of a private construction firm in Paracale, Camarines Norte on Tuesday.

BUKIDNON, Philippines – Four passengers were hurt in an explosion that ripped through a bus in Maramag town on Thursday. Paquito Jivares, 61; Lyn Quadero, 21; Diolola Fostanes, 36; and Daniel Sincero, 45, were seated at the rear of the Rural Transit Bus where the improvised explosive device was planted.

TAGUM CITY, Philippines—Communist rebels burned two buses owned by a mining company in Maco, Compostela Valley, on Friday, police said.

BACOLOD CITY, Philippines — About 25 members of the New People’s Army blew up a sugar transloading station owned by Lopez Sugar Milling Corp. at Barangay (village) Mabini in Escalante City late Sunday, a military official said Monday.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY – Communist rebels raided the field facilities of Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI) in the town of Kiblawan, Davao del Sur early Monday morning, burning some 48 container vans which served as makeshift offices for the besieged mining company.

Communist rebels set heavy equipment on fire at a road clearing site in Nasugbu town, Batangas province, in retaliation for the supposed property dispute and rights abuses in Cavite and Batangas provinces.

MANILA, Philippines—Communist rebels seized dozens of prospectors in a remote Philippine gold rush site and used them as “human shields” against pursuing troops, a military official said on Sunday.

KORONADAL CITY, Philippines – The New People’s Army (NPA) in South Cotabato is reportedly hiring out-of-school youth and training them to fight the government, an Army official said yesterday.

Exactly a week ago we wrote a column entitled “What’s the strength of the NPA these days?” We asked that question because of the bold attacks by the NPA in so many places in Mindanao where the NPA already number from 100 to 200 fully armed rebels. What gets our gall is that, the NPA…

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MANILA, Philippines – Eight buses in a bus terminal were burned down by suspected members of the New People’s Army in the town of Lemery early Sunday morning, police said.

LAL-LO, Cagayan—The New People’s Army (NPA) has taken responsibility for the Jan. 13 burning of vessels, heavy equipment and machinery belonging to a Chinese company that is conducting black sand mining operations along the Cagayan River.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Suspected members of the communist New People’s Army torched at least 3 heavy equipment in a road construction in Malapatan town, Sarangani Province on Tuesday morning, January 14.

MANILA, Philippines—Communist insurgents who have battled government forces for decades turned their fury on hundreds of pigs at a farm in the southern Philippines, a military spokesman said.

ARAKAN, Cotabato —Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels on Monday morning raided an oil palm plantation and seized high-powered firearms in Bgy. Gambudes in Arakan, Cotabato.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerillas set fire to heavy equipment owned by a construction firm in separate incidents here over the weekend.

MAKILALA, Cotabato – One person died and another one was injured when suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels torched a rubber plant and planted a land mine at Bgy. Taluntalunan in Makilala, Cotabato Sunday evening.

KIDAPAWAN CITY, Philippines– Communist rebels on Sunday night killed a worker of a rubber plantation and wounded another after setting on fire the firm’s multi-million processing plant in Makilala, North Cotabato.

NORTH COTABATO, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas burned heavy equipment owned by a private firm handling the construction of a water catchment project in Arakan town the other day, five days after the same group burned six trucks of a banana plantation in a nearby town.

LAGUNA, Philippines – Armed men posing as police officers burned 10 passenger buses after disarming five security guards in a raid on the garage of the two bus companies in Pagsanjan town, shortly after midnight yesterday.

MANILA – Armed men torched 11 buses in Pagsanjan, Laguna before dawn Monday, police said.

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines – Communist rebels on Thursday owned up to the deaths of five civilians, whom they abducted during a rebel raid in a wood firm in Esperanza, Agusan del Sur early this week.

Five civilians were killed while five heavy equipment were burned on Tuesday by suspected New People’s Army rebels in Esperanza town, Agusan del Sur, the Armed Forces of the Philippines said Wednesday.

BACOLOD CITY—One of the country’s biggest mining firms has suspended operations in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental, following a raid on its facilities by New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas last month, according to the firm’s highest-ranking official.