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The NPA was finally able to regain weaponry on December 29, 1970, when Philippine Military Academy instructor Lt. Victor Corpus defected to the CPP-NPA and led a raid on the PMA armory, timing the raid when most cadets were out on Christmas vacation and the PMA's senior officers including its superintendent, General Ugalde, had left the camp to ...
The New People's Army (Filipino: Bagong Hukbong Bayan; abbreviated NPA or BHB) is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). [ 15 ] : 119 It acts as the CPP's principal organization, aiming to consolidate political power from what it sees as the present "bourgeois reactionary puppet government" and to aid in the " people's ...
NPA fighters seized two smartphones from his home. They had previously expelled him from the local area but due to his not complying with this order, executed him. [286] April 18 - NPA claimed Jose Rapsing Command to have killed two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 96th Infantry Battalion, and 'seriously wounded' two others. [287]
In 2023, the private armed group linked to Arnolfo Teves Jr. would be designated as a terrorist organization under the name "Teves Terrorist Group". [12] The ATC would cite political violence in Negros Oriental which culminated with the Pamplona massacre which saw the killing of then-incumbent provincial governor Roel Degamo .
Victor Navarro Corpus (October 4, 1944 – April 4, 2024) was a Filipino military officer and public official best known for his 1970 defection from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to the New People's Army of the Communist Party of the Philippines during the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos, [1] [2] for his defection from the NPA in 1976, his return to the AFP after the 1986 ...
The following is a list of chronological attacks attributed to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), and its armed wing the New People's Army (NPA) which is a major participant in the Communist rebellion in the Philippines.
General Romeo Espino, served as the Commanding General of the Philippine Army before being appointed to become the top military man. Espino is the longest-serving Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for nine years, especially during the martial law regime. A second product of the ROTC.
The group began peace talks with the Philippine government later that year, and on September 13, 1986, the CPLA and the Government of the Philippines made a "sipat" at Mt. Data Hotel, in Bauko, Mountain Province. The agreement between the two entities was called the 1986 Mount Data Peace Accord.