NPA Rebellion in the Philippines

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NPA Rebellion in the Philippines
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), which is the armed wing of the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). It is the world's longest ongoing communist insurgency, and is the largest, most prominent communist armed conflict in the Philippines, seeing more than 43,000 insurgency-related fatalities between 1969 and 2008.
NPA Rebellion in the Philippines - Timeline
1968 - The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is formed as a breakaway movement of the earlier, similarly named Philippine Communist Party of the 1930s
1969 - The CPP forms its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), the “New” in its name referencing an earlier similarly named communist militia, the “People’s Liberation Army”, commonly known as “Huks”, that waged a similar communist rebellion against the Philippine government in the 1950s
1969 - The CPP/NPA’s stated primary reasons for launching the insurgency are 1. The socio-economic divide in Philippine society, caused by the extreme inequality between the wealthy elite, which comprises only 10% of the population but have a monopoly of the political and economic spheres, and the masses of poor workers and peasants/farm workers, and 2. That the Philippines, despite being supposedly sovereign and independent, continues to be under the neo-colonial, neo-feudal domination of its former colonial power, the United States - an “unfinished revolution” the rebels say they are determined to complete.
1972 - 1986 - The rebellion gradually expands during the Martial Law and until the mid-1980s, caused initially by the influx to the mountains of activist students and workers at the start of the militarized regime in 1972, and then by peasants and villagers in the countryside where the insurgency is based, because of the widespread military atrocities committed in the rural areas
1972 - Initially, the rebels attempt the Maoist strategy of establishing a permanent, liberated zone, which is crushed by a military offensive; the rebels then adopt a different strategy, and disperse their manpower and resources throughout the islands through guerilla fronts for better concealment, operational flexibility, and easy escape; however, their attempts to establish a united front with the Moro insurgency, a rebellion by Muslim separatists in Mindanao, fail
1987 - The rebellion reaches its peak strength, boasting some 25,000-30,000 regular and irregular fighters controlling some 5 million people in 15% of the countryside, as well as contesting control of other rural areas populated by another 5 ½ million residents; armed encounters with government forces see the NPA regularly fielding 200-300 fighters in combat, particularly in Mindanao, and 100-200 elsewhere; large areas, particularly in Davao and also in Bataan, Zambales, and Abra, come under rebel control, as well as the Cagayan Valley where the rebels claim to have implemented agrarian reform, and the military also verges on ceding the mountainous interior of Negros and Samar; in Manila and other cities, NPA operatives, organized as so-called “sparrow units”, target policemen, informers, and politicians, although a direct armed attack to cripple Manila, where some 600 communists operate from the slum areas, is never launched
1980s - The rebel leadership implements a massive purge, where estimates of from 2,000 to 9,000 cadres are arrested, tortured, executed, and buried in mass graves, while thousands more surrender, and membership fall by half that nearly destroys the organization
Early 1990s - The CPP/NPA fractures into two groups, Reaffirmists who remain loyal to the leadership and Rejectionists, who break away and which also soon splinter into many sub-groups.
1995 - 2005 - The rebellion experiences renewed growth, while peace initiatives by successive Philippine administrations and the insurgents since 1987 fail to achieve resolution, and a pattern of alternating between negotiations and low-intensity conflict has continued since
2002 - The CPP/NPA is designated a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, Japan, New Zeland, as well as by the Philippines
2019 - The Philippines government adopts a new strategy, the multi-faceted, “whole-of-nation” approach to try and end the world’s longest, ongoing communist insurgency

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In Davao during the 1980s, there's a slum area there called Agdao where there were lots of NPA that it was called "Nicaragdao" (for Nicaragua). That's where the famous "Alsa Masa" vigilante group was formed to fight the NPA, together with other fanatical groups like "Tadtad" and "Pulahan". Davao was so violent with hundreds of killings and disappearances

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Absolutely Irrelevant
Huge in numbers, but the reality they are divided in almost every possible way (major variable is Cultural, Dialect, and Region in the Philippines)
Recruiting the vulnerable people and disregarding what they stand for made it easier to destroy
The whole world was moving forward (fast) and the socialist/communist movement is stuck with nothing but political dividing narrative
The same vulnerable people saw the alternative
NPA (New People Army) members have a choice, come back in society or get left Further behind with people they don't really know/care about
It was scary time (it was a vulnerability) but it was never been a National security threat

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Question: why is it okay for natives to kill their own fellow natives but not okay for foreigners to kill natives?