The Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) should altogether give up their rebellion and work with the government towards sustaining a just and lasting peace. Col. Medel Aguilar, acting spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the...
DAVAO CITY (PNA) – Communist rebel recruiters have turned to other online platforms such as the popular digital music and podcast service Spotify after their websites were blocked by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC). Joy James Saguino, a former high-ranking leader of the New...
LEGAZPI CITY (PNA) – A New People’s Army (NPA) rebel surrendered to police in Placer, Masbate over the weekend. Police Major Malu Calubaquib, Police Regional Office in Bicol (PRO-5) spokesperson, identified Monday, July 18, the surrenderer as "Ka Kris," 29, of Placer. "He is an active member...
Suspected communist rebels killed a rookie policeman when they ambushed a group of policemen conducting relief distribution in Gandara town of Samar on Saturday, July 16. Police Brig. Gen. Bernie Banac, director of the Police Regional Office 8, said the policemen were conducting humanitarian...
CAMP GEN. VICENTE LIM, Calamba City, Laguna – Wanting to live a peaceful life, nine New People’s Army (NPA) rebels operating in Quezon surrendered to the government Friday, July 15. According to them, their lives in hiding did not bring peace to them and the families they left behind. They said...
CAMP OLIVAS, City of San Fernando, Pampanga – Seventeen members of the Liga ng Manggagawang Bukid (LMB) have severed ties with the Alyansang Mangbubukid sa Gitnang Luzon (AMGL) under the Kilusan ng Magsasaka ng Pilipinas (KMP). SEVENTEEN members of the LMB pledge loyalty to the government during...
The government’s primary anti-communist task force “strongly” recommended the granting of amnesty to communist rebels who will return to the folds of the law supposedly to prevent the resurgence of communist rebellion that has hounded the country for more than five decades already. (Photo...
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY —- Fourteen non-combatant rebels who were members of an Underground Mass Organization (UGMO) of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) have surrendered to the authorities in Bukidnon on Friday, July 15. The Police...
BACOLOD CITY – They will now set out to hunt their former comrades in the communist movement. Two former combatants of the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa-Pilipinas-Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPM-P/RPA-ABB) in Negros Occidental have become soldiers and are now...
TACLOBAN CITY – Three members of the New People's Army (NPA), including an amazon, involved in the landmine explosion that injured seven soldiers in San Jorge, Northern Samar were killed in an encounter in Mapanas, Northern Samar last July 8. AN election campaign poster of former Vice President...
BACOLOD CITY – A rifle and a handgun owned by two policemen were recovered from the site of an encounter between the military and New People’s Army (NPA) last week in Barangay Santol, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental. THE firearms owned by two policemen recovered from two NPA rebels slain in a...
Four suspected New People’s Army (NPA) fighters – including a 21-year-old young man and a 26-year-old woman, were killed in a recent armed encounter in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, the military’s Visayas Command (VISCOM) confirmed Wednesday, July 13. (Courtesy of Visayas Command) In a...
