Insurgency

Much has been written, for and against, the conditional cash transfer (CCT) program of the Arroyo government that President Aquino has decided to extend as a key component of his administration’s anti-poverty thrust, with an outlay of P21.2 billion in the 2011 national budget.

ZAMBOANGA CITY: New Zealand has blacklisted the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), adding the two organizations to its list of international terrorist groups.

ANGELES CITY, Philippines  – Armed men believed to be members of the New People’s Army simultaneously attacked and burned two cell sites of Globe Telecommunications at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Army is confident a new campaign plan replacing “Oplan Bantay Laya” will end the decades-old insurgency problem if followed faithfully by all stakeholders.

President Aquino has terminated a controversial anti-insurgency plan that militant groups have linked to summary killing of people identified with the communist movement.

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao , Philippines  – Two soldiers were killed while four civilians were wounded in an ambush by New People’s Army guerillas in a hinterland area in Paquibato district in Davao City, the military said.

Communist rebels have set on fire to five container vans of a banana plantation in Compostela Valley province, the military said yesterday.

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MANILA, July 30 – Army authorities condemned the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army’s (CPP-NPA) use of human shields in a clash with government forces in Lupi town in Camarines Sur on Thursday afternoon.

The Communist Party of the Philippines yesterday rejected President Aquino’s proposed resumption of the long-stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the CPP-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) anchored on immediate ceasefire which is contrary to previous agreements.

ILAGAN, Isabela: At least P15-million worth of heavy equipment owned by a logging firm based here were razed by fire by the New People’s Army (NPA) over the week, Army reports disclosed on Tuesday. According to Col. Loreto Magundayao, head of the fifth civil-military relations battalion based at Camp Melchor Dela Cruz—the headquarters of the…

Gunmen believed to be members of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) burned down several logging equipment worth millions of pesos in an inner Isabela town on Thursday, a military report said yesterday.

DAVAO CITY, Philippines—At the height of the election campaign in May, a tarpaulin showing top communist rebel Leoncio Pitao, or Commander Parago, shaking hands with then Mayor Rodrigo Duterte of Davao City was burned by hard-core anticommunist Pastor Jun Alcover and retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan—right at the bosom of insurgency in Paquibato District.

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Zamboanga City: Communist rebels over the weekend accused the Armed Forces of the Philippinesof actively recruiting minors for military operations against the armed movement. The allegation was made after members of the New People’s Army (NPA) discovered that a prisoner they were currently holding is reportedly a 17-year-old member of the Civilian Auxiliary Force Geographical…

MANILA, Philippines – A senior military official proposed yesterday a political settlement to end the decades-old communist insurgency in the country through the signing of a peace agreement to give rebels a graceful exit from the lingering conflict.

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) foresees the further decline of insurgency in the country, if not its decimation, through more effective governance by local chief executives who should take the lead role in the counter-insurgency campaign.

Combined military and police forces have arrested a ranking leader of the communist New People’s Army (NPA), military authorities said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), are facing a split as a result of the recently-concluded national and local polls.

MANILA, Philippines – The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) yesterday called on the New People’s Army (NPA) to cease and desist from extorting money from politicians through so-called permits to campaign.

MANILA, Philippines – The military is planning to file before international bodies a complaint against the communist insurgents who launched a landmine attack that killed four policemen in Antipolo City, Rizal last Tuesday.

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When I was a college student, I, like my fellow students, romanticized revolutions. We read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Nicolas Poulantzas’ Power and Social Classes. Che Guevara was our hero. Communism was Heaven on Earth, and bourgeois capitalism, with its profit orientation at the expense of the welfare of the workers, was…

CLARK FREEPORT, Pampanga , Philippines  – Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales said some local candidates seem to regard killing their rivals as a less costly alternative to cheating in the country’s first automated elections this May.

According to documents captured by the military, the CPP-NPA plans to raise between three to five billion pesos from collecting “permit to campaign” fees from politicians this election season. In which case, the Maoist insurgents aspire to be the single biggest campaign expense this year.

WASHINGTON – It was tit for tat between government forces and rebel and terrorist groups last year. The US State Department, quoting military sources, said 219 members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and 227 insurgents were killed in action throughout the country. Additionally, 27 police and 23 insurgents died in other fighting.