Insurgency

Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 24 – The 27th formal exploratory talks between the Government of the Philippines (GPH) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) began with high hopes as both parties identified preliminary decision points on principles that will serve as a framework for the eventual signing of a peace agreement.

The government’s troop, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday said that the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army’s (CPP-NPA) strength has waned after the rebel movement’s heyday in the 1980s. The APF said the CPP-NPA’s numbers have dropped from 24,430 to less than 5,000 fighters in the past two decades.

CAMP RAFAEL C. RODRIGUEZ, Butuan City – A ten wheeler truck owned by DOLE Stanfilco was damaged Monday by alleged members of communist-New People’s Army (NPA) at the vicinity of Block 9, Sanguenza Quarry, Sitio Kabalawan, Barangay Anajao Da-an, in Tago town, Surigao del Sur, reported regional police spokesman Supt. Martin M. Gamba, on Tuesday.

RONALD Llamas, the controversial political adviser of President Benigno Aquino III, on Friday said the Democratic Left was gaining influence in the government with its push for peaceful reforms while the Communist extremists were becoming irrelevant with their call for armed revolution.

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Double talk. Bayan Muna president Satur Ocampo accuses President Benigno Aquino of endangering the peace talks. A LEFTIST leader accused President Benigno Aquino III on Sunday of “hallucinating” on the whereabouts, ideology and political plans of Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison and said the “double-talk” would damage the peace process.

THE communist New People’s Army (NPA) remains active in Nueva Ecija and Aurora even as these provinces had long been declared insurgency-free.

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines has declared the province of Ilocos Norte insurgency-free, bringing to 25 the total number of provinces that the military claimed were completely freed from the influence of the communist New People’s Army (NPA).

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front cannot anymore engage the government in armed combat because of massive defection, Chairman Nur Misuari of the Moro National Liberation Front said on Friday.

THE military said the communist organization in the country is stepping up its political rhetoric and venturing into the open political battlefield.

Twenty-three provinces nationwide were liberated from the influence of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) during the first year of implementation of the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ (AFP) anti-insurgency internal peace and security plan (IPSP) “Bayanihan.”

The Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) has collected at least P300 million from their extortion activities throughout the country this year, a whopping 200 percent increase compared to “revolutionary taxes” gained by the communist group in 2010.

Communist rebels earned at least P300 million from their extortion activities this year, and had perpetrated criminal activities that left 56 civilians dead, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said Wednesday, citing its yearend report.

MANILA, Philippines – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday ordered its fighters to “arrest” landlords who block land reform and to attack companies that destroy the country’s natural resources. In a 13-page statement issued on the eve of its 43rd anniversary, the CPP also directed its revolutionary forces to launch attacks on the…

PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III on Wednesday congratulated the Armed Forces for carrying out a civil relations program that he said had reduced the attacks by Moro and communist rebels by 50 percent and 10 percent, respectively. Attacks by the Moro Islamic Liberation front went down by more than 50 percent from January to November as…

MANILA, Philippines – After almost two years in Malacañang, President Aquino’s efforts to end the armed conflict with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the communist New People’s Army (NPA) have remained an elusive dream.

The New People’s Army is commemorating its 42nd founding anniversary a day after Christmas this year. Four decades is an astonishingly protracted campaign for a group that is considered as the biggest threat to Philippine security but, at the same time, dismissed as a ragtag band of 5,000 fighters whose preferred targets are isolated police…

COTABATO CITY ,Philippines  – Suspected Moro rebels have blasted a powerful improvised explosive in a banana plantation in Tulunan, North Cotabato in what could be an attempt to force the company to shell out “protection money,” authorities said yesterday.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) yesterday joined farmworkers of Hacienda Luisita in celebrating the Supreme Court’s decision ordering the distribution of the 5,000-hectare sugarcane plantation owned by the family of President Aquino.

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines  – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels burned heavy equipment including a backhoe loader at Madyaw Construction Development Corp. in Purok Sarabia, Barangay Tagcatong, Carmen, Agusan del Norte before midnight of Thursday, a police report said yesterday.

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has branded the surrender of 80 New People’s Army (NPA) rebels, including 19 minors, in Bukidnon province to government authorities as military “psychological warfare” smacks of coercion and fakery.

MANILA, Philippines – Months after an international human rights group slammed them for allegedly fabricating stories of child recruits in the New People’s Army rebel group, the Armed Forces of the Philippines claimed that they have proof disproving these accusations.

The Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front says it is becoming increasingly doubtful that a final peace agreement will be signed with the government by next year.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: New People’s Army rebels raided a plywood factory and torched its equipment before escaping in the province of Agusan del Sur in the southern Philippines, military officials said.

CATHOLIC bishops on Tuesday renewed their call for President Benigno Aquino III to explain the cash aid his administration granted to rebels, warning that he could undermine trust in the government with the lack of transparency in the deal.

GOVERNMENT troops have been assigned to protect the members of the Alex Boncayao Brigade and other communist splinter groups from their former comrades, Army Gen. Emmanuel Bautista said Sunday.

DAVAO CITY ,Philippines  – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels burned on Friday night three heavy equipment of a construction company working on the rehabilitation of a stretch of the Davao-Cotabato national highway in Bansalan, Davao del Sur.

Amid criticism for funding rebel groups, government peace negotiators say two groups are ‘armed but not dangerous’ THE communist splinter group with which the government is seeking peace has split into two factions, but an Armed Forces official said Thursday that would have no impact on the ongoing efforts to disarm the rebels.

THE government on Wednesday admitted that local politicians have used some members of the communist breakaway Alex Boncayao Brigade as hired guns or to boost their private armies.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines – At least three people were seriously wounded when suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels attacked a mining site in the town of Rosario in Agusan del Sur Tuesday night.