DAVAO CITY – Davao Oriental has been declared “insurgency-free” following the series of successful peace and order initiatives that dismantled the remnants of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the province. DAVAO Oriental was declared insurgency-free in this provincial peace and order council...
BACOLOD CITY -- Sixteen suspected members, including three leaders, of the New People’s Army (NPA) surrendered to the authorities in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Tuesday, Sept. 20, the military said on Wednesday, Sept. 21. Some of the 16 rebel returnees burn an NPA flag during an activity...
GENERAL NAKAR, Quezon – Three New People’s Army (NPA) rebels were killed in encounter in Sitio Lagmar, Barangay Pagsangahan, here on Tuesday, Sept. 20. Troops from the 22nd Division Reconnaissance Company were conducting a focus military operation when they chanced upon an undetermined number...
ILOILO CITY -- A New People’s Army (NPA) amazon wanted for murder has been arrested in Pontevedra town, Capiz province. Police Regional Office (PRO-6) identified the suspect as Carina Abuyan Oliveros, a Capiz native who allegedly was one of the two who killed a village chief in Tarlac province....
CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City – The 4th Marine Brigade (4MBde) and the Marine Battalion Landing Team 8 (MBLT8) have been redeployed from Sulu to augment ground forces involved in internal security operations in Northern and Central Luzon against the remaining units of the New People’s Army. Armed...
ILOILO CITY – A top leader of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Mindanao was caught in Barotac Viejo, Iloilo on Wednesday, Sept. 14. NEW People’s Army leader Leo Lacumbo and his nephew are arrested in Barotac Viejo, Iloilo on Wednesday, Sept. 14. (PCADG Western Visayas) Authorities identified...
By DIANN IVY CALUCIN Twenty members of the Pinagkaisang Lakas ng Mamamayan (PLM), a group that supports the New People's Army (NPA), surrendered to the Northern Police District (NPD) on Monday, Sept. 12. The PLM is a people's organization in poor communities in the Philippines that promotes the...
BUTUAN CITY (PNA) – Police have arrested a top New People’s Army leader in Surigao del Norte. DOLERA mugshot The Surigao del Norte Provincial Police Office (SDNPPO) reported Monday, Sept. 12, that she is Nenita Generalao Dolera, 31, secretary of NPA Guerrilla Front 19, Sub-Regional Committee...
BUTUAN CITY (PNA) – The New People’s Army (NPA) killed a 23-year-old former comrade while tending to his pigs in San Miguel, Surigao del Sur on Friday, Sept. 9. The Indigenous People Mandatory Representative (IPMR) of San Miguel has condemned the NPA for killing Marvin Alimboyong Caling, a...
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – Police on Sunday, Sept. 11, arrested in Barangay Tanglagan, Calanasan, Apayao a New People’s Army (NPA) rebel wanted for the ambush that killed two soldiers in 2009 in Lubuagan, Kalinga. Suspect Victor Mangao, 49, alias “Ka Salas,” of Western Uma, Lubuagan, Kalinga and...
BACOLOD CITY – Three former New People’s Army (NPA) rebels completed basic education through the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Thursday, Sept. 8. THIS former communist rebel finished basic education through the Alternative Learning System (ALS) in...
CAMP MARCELO A. ADDURU, Tuguegarao City, Cagayan – Thirty-seven New People’s Army (NPA) rebels and supporters surrendered in the one-day Simultaneous Anti-Criminality and Law Enforcement Operations (SACLEO) in Cagayan on Thursday, Sept. 8. The police SACLEO was conducted in support of the...
