A group representing various sectors has been formed to help prepare a list of and serve as conduit for compensation to civilians wounded in a grenade attack here that communist guerrillas claimed responsibility and apologized for.
The underground National Democratic Front (NDF) said it would compensate victims of the Sept. 1 grenade attack that injured dozens of people in a village here and which the New People’s Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for.
National Democratic Front (NDF) Mindanao spokesman Jorge Madlos is appealing to President Benigno Aquino III to stay the warrant of arrest against his son, who was charged with arson, so he could attend his grandmother’s wake and burial.
The jail transfer of a detained communist rebel and the continuous detentions of their other members could have negative consequences on the planned resumption of formal peace negotiations between the Aquino administration and the insurgents, the top representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) warned on Thursday.
Authorities yesterday said a mining firm under attack by armed members of a tribal group was caught in the middle of a tribal war which they said was not directed at the mining company.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Monday condemned the arrest of Jaime Soledad, a consultant in peace negotiations with the government, and called for his release.
In a somewhat startling declaration Thursday, the Armed Forces claimed to have “liberated” 23 provinces from the four-decades-old communist insurgency, which it said lost more than 300 guerrillas in 2011.
Vice Mayor Rodrigo Duterte announced he had quit as resource person for the National Democratic Front (NDF) in peace talks with the government on orders by the Department of Interior and Local Government.
DAVAO CITY—Talks between the government and communist-led National Democratic Front (NDF), brokered by Norway, are back to zero because of the two sides’ failure to break an impasse over a communist demand for the release of political prisoners, a government negotiator said. “We will have to start again back on square one,” Ednar Dayanghirang said [...]
Negotiations to end one of Asia’s longest-running Marxist insurgencies have stalled in the Philippines after communist rebels insisted jailed comrades be released and escalated attacks on government troops and mining companies, the government said Wednesday.
The rugged road to Trento’s hinterland barangay of New Visayas—where the New People’s Army (NPA) freed Lingig town Mayor Henry Dano and his military escorts—showed the great divide that once gave birth to the communist armed movement and made it thrive in over four decades.
KORONADAL CITY—Authorities in several Mindanao provinces, where attacks on mining companies had occurred, have deployed additional troops or placed their men on heightened alert to prevent a repeat of Monday’s raid by the New People’s Army (NPA) on three mining firms in Claver, Surigao del Norte. National Democratic Front (NDF) spokesperson Jorge Madlos on Wednesday [...]
Communist rebels said they were ready to release four jail guards held hostage by the New People’s Army since late July but only on the condition that the military and police suspend their offensive operations.
