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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 ...
"Armed Conflict Report 2002, Philippines-CPP/NPA" (Archived November 16, 2019, at the Wayback Machine; PDF). "U.S. Department of State – Philippine Communist Party Designated Foreign Terrorist Group". "New People's Army" (archived from the original on February 25, 2008). Extract of article about NPA's tactics and strategy, May 2006 (full ...
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU), [1] formerly Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP; Filipino: Tanggapan ng Pampanguluhang Tagapayo sa Prosesong Pangkapayapaan [2]) is a government agency which handles peace talks and negotiations related to internal conflict and rebellion in the Philippines most notably the CPP-NPA ...
The Washington Post, in an interview with former Philippine Communist Party officials, revealed that, "they (local communist party officials) wound up languishing in China for 10 years as unwilling 'guests' of the (Chinese) government, feuding bitterly among themselves and with the party leadership in the Philippines".
The New People's Army initially had only 60 guerrillas and 35 WWII-era guns, [19] which they all soon lost in an encounter against the Armed Forces of the Philippines. [20] The NPA tried to follow the Maoist military doctrine of "establishing stable base areas," but they took heavy casualties in Northern Luzon as a result, and abandoned the ...
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.
It was created at a time when the NPA was still experimenting with approaches like urban insurrectionism, [4] creating an atmosphere of extreme violence in Mindanao. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] However, Alsa Masa itself was soon noted to also be a perpetrator of numerous human rights violations, creating a cycle of violence in the locality.
National Democratic Mass Organization (NDMO) is a collective term in the Philippines for sectoral mass organizations that subscribe to National Democratic principles. [1]These organizations are frequently red-tagged by the Philippine government and the military, as NDMOs recognize, but do not openly support, [2] the Communist rebellion in the Philippines [3] because of their belief that the ...