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(Eagle News) – Funds from the government’s Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program, or 4Ps, meant to benefit the country’s poor, have been discovered in a camp of the communist rebel group, the New People’s Army (NPA). President Rodrigo Duterte himself bared this in a speech on Tuesday, when he said that the Pantawid Pamilya funds, still inside the envelopes, were found inside one NPA camp. “They recovered from an NPA camp envelopes containing the Pantawid,” Duterte […]
by Cecil Morella Agence France Presse A kerosene lamp flickers beside a Macbook in a jungle camp as ageing Philippine communist leader Jaime Padilla plots the next step in one of Asia’s oldest insurgencies with a new generation of fighters. Fuelled by one of the world’s starkest rich-poor divides, a Maoist rebellion that began months before the first human landed on the moon plods on even though the country now boasts one of the […]
TAYTAY, Palawan (Eagle News) – Isang sagupaan ang naganap nitong Biyernes, August 11 bandang 10:00 ng umaga sa bayan ng Taytay nang magkaroon ng palitan ng putukan sa pagitan ng mga awtoridad at mga miyembro ng New People’s Army (NPA). Kinumpirma ng Provincial PNP, ang naganap na engkwentro sa pagitan ng Regional Public Safety Batallion at umano’y New Peoples Army sa bayan ng Taytay, Palawan. Ayon kay Col. Gabriel Lopez, tinatayang nasa 20 ang nakasagupa ng […]
(Eagle News) — Policemen on a special operation in San Nicolas, Pangasinan had an encounter on Friday (July 28) with around 20 members of the New People’s Army (NPA), where one police officer was killed and another one injured. Pangasinan Provincial office director Senior Supt. Ronald Lee said the encounter happened on the third day of police operations of the Philippine National Police Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) after sightings of NPA rebels had been […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte dared Jose Maria Sison, his former professor and founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to come home to the Philippines, leave the comfortable life he has in Utrecht, and fight the struggle he had lectured about here in his home country. The 72-year old Duterte called the 78-year old Sison “duwag” and “talawan,” the Filipino and Cebuano term respectively for “coward.” He said the […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he is fed up with the communists’ actions, including that of their leader Jose Maria Sison, and is categorically putting an end to peace talks with them. “Yes, I am ending it,” he said in a press conference after his two-hour State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Congress and after briefly talking to leftist protesters converged outside the Batasan Road. “Ayaw ninyong makipag-usap, mas lalo na […]
PUERTO PRINCESA, Palawan (Eagle News) – Sunud-sunod ang pag-atakeng isinasagawa ng mga grupo ng New People’s Army (NPA) sa ilang bayan sa Palawan. Noong nakaraang July 19 ay may pinatay na dalawang sundalo sa Brgy. Magara, Roxas, Palawan. Tahasang inako ng grupong Bienvenido Vallaver Command ang ginawang pamamaslang sa dalawang sundalo habang ito ay namamalengke sa public market. Noon namang nakaraang Biyernes, July 21, habang binibigyan ng parangal ang dalawang sundalong inilipat ang mga labi […]
Filipino military personnel expect that President Rodrigo Duterte would tighten up security as conflicts between the government and insurgents are mounting. Two military officials made the remarks in an exclusive interviews with China Central Television (CCTV) before Duterte will deliver his second state of the nation address (SONA) since he took office last June. Major Ezra Balagtey, spokesman of the Eastern Mindanao Command, one of the country’s seven military commands, said that he hopes […]
These photos showed the bullet-riddled vehicle of the Presidential Security Group, one of the two vehicles used in the convoy ambushed by suspected gunmen of the New People’s Army rebels. At least five PSG men were wounded and one militiaman was killed in the attack that happened around 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, July 19, in North Cotabato. President Rodrigo Duterte warned the communist leaders he would not allow peace talks to continue if the […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to end peace talks with communist rebels on Wednesday, hours after suspected guerrillas wounded five members of the two-vehicle Presidential Security Group (PSG) convoy in an ambush along a national highway in North Cotabato. Aides said Duterte, 72, was not in the convoy when gunmen opened fire on two Presidential Security Group vehicles along a highway on the main southern island of Mindanao, where martial law is in effect. […]
At least one person was dead and several others injured after government forces in a convoy clashed with suspected rebels in North Cotabato on Wednesday. The convoy composed mostly of members from the Presidential Security Group was on its way to Cagayan de Oro when they ran into a checkpoint manned by guerrillas, their commander Louie Dagoy told reporters. The fatality was identified as Benjamin Pandia, a member of the Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit. […]
(Eagle News) — Sinunog ng hinihinalang miyembro ng New People’s Army (NPA) ang tatlong heavy equipment na nagkakahalaga ng P3 milyon sa Zamboanga Del Sur kamakailan. Base sa inisyal na imbistigation ng Philippine National Police, nasa labin-limang mga armadong lalaki ang umatake sa bunkhouse ng Ramona Construction Company sa Dumingag, Purok Uno, Barangay Licabang. Binuhusan nila ng gasolina ang mga nakaparadang dump truck at saka sinilaban ang mga ito. Pagkatapos sunugin ang mga nasabing equipment […]
