![]() It has paradoxically evolved from being an anomaly to a necessary ingredient in Philippine power politics.” Because, as political analyst Gabriel Jose Honrada wrote for an online news outlet, “While the Philippine government views the CPP-NPA as a threat that must be eliminated, a more cynical view is that to exist to preserve the status quo. Given the country’s political dynamics, the AFP’s optimistic scenario is, at best, wishful thinking, and, at worse, naivete. ![]() It’s a remote possibility, however, for Sison’s comrades in the CPP and NDFP, who have already expressed “determination to carry the revolution forward,” and announced that there would be no Christmas ceasefire this year. Medel Aguilar said it hopes Sison’s successor would “chart a new direction in promoting reforms. Bartolome Vicente Bacarro said its force has since dwindled to 24 guerilla fronts with “more or less” 2,100 active fighters.ĭespite failed peace negotiations between previous administrations and the CPP-NDFP, AFP spokesperson Col. Last month, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Lt. A year later, he established the NPA which followed Mao Zedong’s “protracted people’s war” strategy of surrounding the cities from the countryside.Īt its peak during the martial law years, the NPA had 25,000 Red fighters, according to military estimates. Sison, a former youth leader and university professor, founded in 1968 the Marxist-Lennist-Maoist CPP, a breakaway party from the pro-Soviet Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas. ![]() ![]() His death, the Department of National Defense (DND) crowed, marks the end of the “greatest stumbling block to peace.” It is also symbolic of the “crumbling hierarchy” of the Philippine communist movement, the DND statement added, referring to the CPP-NPA and its political arm, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP). Sison died Friday, reportedly of heart failure, after weeks of hospital confinement in The Netherlands where he has lived in self-exile since 1987. MANILA – Will the death last week of Jose Maria Sison, the founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing the New People’s Army (NPA), finally put an end to the country’s long-running insurgency problem? ![]()
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