Insurgency

NESBRU – Government negotiators and communist rebels agreed Monday on a road map for continued peace talks aimed at resolving Asia’s longest-running insurgency by June 2012.

MANILA, Philippines – The military and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) have declared a ceasefire in preparation for the peace talks, which resume today in Oslo, Norway.

The Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) rebellion claims to be Maoist. If so, then Maoist China should have been their center of orbit. However, a personal account which a veteran political player revealed to your Chair Wrecker and some close friends had debunked that notion.

Our Leftists will strike at every opportunity to rabble rouse against the President Noynoy Aquino III (P-Noy) administration. At the start of the year, they immediately mounted a demonstration using the new toll fare hikes as their excuse. It mattered not to them that this was an inherited problem and that the judicial process determined…

THE government’s new anti-insurgency strategy, the Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) Bayanihan, is turning out to be the best antidote into ending the 40-year communist insurgency problem as more members of the New People’s Army (NPA) return to the fold of the law, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Armed Forces spokesman,…

MANILA, Philippines –  Communist rebels want issues on the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), human rights and political prisoners tackled during preliminary talks with the government in Norway this month.

It’s bad enough that many Filipinos don’t know their real history. It’s worse when idiots (people who do not know the truth) and deceivers (people who know the truth but want to hide it) are distorting the truth. Idiots unwittingly distort the truth by spreading fiction. Deceivers wittingly distort the truth for personal gain or…

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has started implementing its new anti-insurgency strategy aimed at winning the hearts and minds of the people rather than directly confronting the enemy, to achieve peace and stability and finally put an end to the 40-year communist insurgency. The new Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP), dubbed as…

MANILA, Philippines – Communist rebels have extorted more than P95 million as of end-November this year and P1.5 billion since 1998 from investors and politicians, the military said yesterday.

THE government on Tuesday denounced communist rebel “extortion” of businesses, which a top aide of President Benigno Aquino 3rd said could scare away investments and jobs.

LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines – A waning communist insurgency is one of the major factors propelling Bicol’s high growth for the first time in the region’s history.

SAN AGUSTIN: The New People’s Army (NPA) units in southern Philippines said on Sunday that they have continued to gain the upper hand in the war against government forces in the region.

THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is optimistic that the decades-old communist insurgency in the country will be defeated before the end of the six-year term of the Aquino administration in 2016.

MOUNT DIWATA—Too poor to afford school beyond fourth grade, 19-year-old Johnny Buyo walked away from home six months ago to join the communist rebellion—one of Asia’s longest-running. He was handed a rusty M16 rifle, which he vowed to keep for life.

During the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) 75th Anniversary celebration, media reported that some military commanders had reacted negatively to the announcement of the government’s new anti insurgency policy.

THE New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic Front (CPP-NDF) remains the “most dangerous” organization waging an armed struggle against the government, according to the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Armed Forces spokesman Brig. Gen. Jose Mabanta Jr. made the admission on Sunday, which was coincidentally the…

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has branded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s internal peace and security plan (IPSP) “Bayanihan” as “the same dog with a different collar,” stressing the new plan is patterned after the United States militarist counterinsurgency guide.

MANILA – President Benigno Aquino unveiled on Tuesday the Philippine military’s new counter-insurgency plan focusing on measures to cut poverty to defeat Maoist and Muslim rebels.

MANILA, Philippines – An Army official warned yesterday of heightened recruitment by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) during the suspension of offensive military operations (SOMO).

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguin­danao – The heavy presence of soldiers and policemen along highways thwarted an attempt the other day by suspected Moro extremists to bomb a bus plying the Bukidnon-North Cotabato route, authorities said.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has dubbed its new counter-insurgency campaign plan as “Bayanihan” which is people-centered and focused more on the whole-nation approach to finally end the decades-long communist insurgency problem in the country.

WITH the release of the so-called “Morong 43” the other day, Rep. Rafael Mariano of Anakpawis party-list over the week end said that he smell the end of communist insurgency next year. “It’s highly possible. With the way President [Benigno] Noynoy [Aquino 3rd] is doing, we can see light at the end of the tunnel,”…

TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol — The military command here warned the youth from the lure of communists, as they alleged remnants of the rebel groups are trying to gain back its stronghold in the province.

BUTUAN CITY, Philippines – Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) guerrillas swooped down on a banana plantation owned by Dole Philippines in Barobo, Surigao del Sur last Tuesday morning and destroyed some 1,600 banana plants.

DR. MARIO Miclat’s “Secrets of the Eighteen Mansions: A Novel” (Manila: Anvil Publishing, 2010) reveals in rich detail many of the covert factors that contributed to the growth of one of our country’s biggest problems: the Communist Party of the Philippines.

COTABATO CITY, Philippines (Xinhua) – Leftist rebels destroyed a banana plantation in the southern Philippines Friday afternoon, local officials said.

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MANILA, Philippines – The military yesterday accused the communist New People’s Army (NPA) rebels of executing 17 people in less than two months.

MANILA, Philippines—The local communist movement has opened shop, literally. Retired Police Director Rodolfo “Boogie” Mendoza, a former police intelligence officer, said the Communist Party of the Philippines now has “sophisticated” ways to build up their funds, including setting up actual businesses.

The military yesterday claimed to have uncovered another purging campaign by the communist New People’s Army (NPA), targeting former rebels in the Visayas region, as revealed by captured documents and communist leaders in Negros areas.