Communist revolutionary struggle in the Philippines
The New People's Army's revolutionary struggle is an armed conflict in the Philippines that has been ongoing since 1969 .
It is a conflict between the communist Nuevo Ejército del Pueblo (NPA) and the government of the country. Another conflict is the Moro conflict , in which Islamist groups are seeking secession.
history
The uprising in the Philippines stems from the rebellions against Spain and the war against the United States . The latter led to the Moro uprising . The Communist Party first emerged as Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas in the 1930s . In 1948 the party instigated an uprising, which in 1954 led to a practical end to the party, which had hitherto been based on the Soviet model. The party was re-established in 1968, this time Maoist- oriented.
The New People's Army (NPA) was founded in 1969 as its armed arm. The NPA is active in Luzon , Samar , Leyte , Surigao and Agusan . Since the late 1960s, the NPA has fought in various provinces in the Philippines, and numerous groups split off. Between 1971 and 2002 around 10,000 soldiers and police officers, around 23,000 rebels and around 11,000 civilians died. During and after the fighting, there were also extrajudicial killings of captured rebels, but the figures for this vary widely between communist organizations and independent lawyers.