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The CPP and TUC leaders, including Bankole Awoonor Renner, Tommy Hutton Mills, Pobee Binney and Kojo Botsio and Anthony Woode were rounded up and arrested. Two CPP newspapers – The Accra Evening News and the Cape Coast Daily Mail- were banned and their editors J. Markham and Kofi Baako arrested.
The strike quickly led to violence, and Nkrumah and other CPP leaders were arrested on 22 January, and the Evening News was banned. [102] Nkrumah was sentenced to a total of three years in prison, and he was incarcerated with common criminals in Accra's Fort James. [103]
Two CPP central committee members, Satur Ocampo, also a leader of the affiliated "fronts," and his wife Carolina Malay, are arrested by the Philippine Constabulary in Makati. The couple, both former journalists, have been chief negotiators for the communists with the Aquino government.
Wilma Tiamzon (née Austria; 21 December 1952 – August 22, 2022) was a Filipino political organizer and until her arrest in March 2014 by Philippine security forces, believed to be the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA). [2] [3]
The CPP-NPA responded by claiming that the declarations don't represent the will of the Filipino people, and accused the DILG and AFP of threatening the LGUs and local leaders with arrest and not giving their governments the funds they needed. [40] [41]
Tiamzon was born and raised in Marikina. [4] His parents were both workers in the town's shoemaking industry, and he was the fourth of eight children. [8] [9] According to Manila Times columnist Rigoberto Tiglao, a former head of the Manila-Rizal chapter of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in the early 1970s, [10] Tiamzon grew up in a family that was neither rich nor poor, and that ...
After releasing communist leaders including the Tiamzon couple [5] and attempting an alliance with far-left organizations, [6] Duterte backtracked and declared the CPP–NPA a terrorist organization. [7] Bongbong Marcos (2022–present) is the son of Ferdinand Marcos and current president of the Philippines.
Despite Sison's arrest in 1976, [27] the CPP and NPA continued to expand, reaching a strength of 30,000 Party members and 25,000 NPA fighters across 69 of the country's 80 provinces by 1986. [ 7 ] In 1978, disagreements on whether or not to boycott the Interim Batasang Pambansa elections led to the suspension of the CPP's Manila-Rizal committee ...