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The New People's Army rebellion (often shortened to NPA rebellion) is an ongoing conflict between the government of the Philippines and the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [4] [11] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The NPA is one of the key figures in the ongoing communist rebellion in the Philippines, the longest ongoing conflict in the country. The NPA operates and is based primarily in the Philippine countryside, [3] where the CPP alleges it has established itself in 73 out of the country's 81 provinces, across over 110 guerrilla fronts.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion; Armed Forces and Police: Government; Armed Forces of the Philippines → Commander-in-Chief → Chief of Staff → Units → Philippine Army →Philippine Navy →Philippine Marine Corps →Philippine Air Force Philippine National Police →Special Action Force →SWAT: Communist Party; New People's Army National ...
Marcos blamed this unrest on the newly-formed Communist Party of the Philippines under Jose Maria Sison, [14] despite both Philippine and American intelligence services noting that the communist situation in the Philippines was "normal" or at the lowest level of concern; [15] [16] and on a supposed "Islamic Insurgency",although the armed Moro ...