Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) arrested on Sunday night, Jan. 30, three ranking officials of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) in a raid in General Santos City.
Nabbed were Ruben Abenir Saluta, identified as the secretary of the
MANILA-A Manila court has dismissed a petition for proscription filed by the government in 2018 to formally outlaw the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) under the old Human Security Act (HSA). In its 135-decision dated Sept. 21, Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 19 Judge Marlo A. Magdoza-Malagar noted, among other things, that under Sec. 26 of the Anti-Terror Act of 2020 which superseded the HSA, the proscription of terrorist organizations, association or group of persons shall now be made by an application of the Department of Justice (DOJ) before the Court of Appeals (CA). "The instant petition is hereby dismissed," Malagar said. Government lawyers said they are evaluating their next move in the development. "We are going to study the decision first," DOJ spokesperson Mico Clavano told newsmen. Last May, the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) designated as terrorists six high-ranking communist leaders, incl
PURSUIT. A Black Hawk helicopter sent to the mountains of San Jorge, Samar on July 12 to pick up cadavers of three dead New People's Army members killed in pursuit operations. The Philippine Army has been stepping up its fight against the communist terrorist group in the mountains of Northern Samar. (Photo courtesy of Philippine Army) TACLOBAN CITY - The Philippine Army (PA) is stepping up its fight against the communist movement in the mountains of Northern Samar as they hunt culprits behind the recent detonation of anti-personnel mines. The recovery of three bodies of members of the New People's Army (NPA) last week was a result of the use of air assets in their pursuit operations, said Maj. Gen. Edgardo de Leon, commander of the Army's 8th Infantry Division. The three unidentified terrorists - two males and a female - were killed during the government troops' pursuit operation near the borders of Northern Samar and Samar provinces. The military launched pursuit opera