National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict

There is confusion, angst on the ground, and the pining as to when the use of anti-personnel mine be stopped in the Bicol countryside.

FINALLY, the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed combatant, the New People’s Army, owned up to the brutal and senseless murder

By Joviland Rita / GMA News Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday said the communist rebels' bomb attack in Masbate using an improvised explosive device planted on the ground constitutes a war crime. In a statement, HRW senior Philippine researcher Carlos Conde said the use of anti-personnel landmines are prohibited in the Philippines under the Mine Ban Treaty. "The killing of a labor leader and a football player by an IED planted by the New People’s Army shows the terrible t

At least three members of the New People’s Army (NPA) suspected of killing Kieth and Nolven Absalon were killed during a firefight with

The CPP-NPA policy of using anti-personnel mines in their desperate effort to project an illusion of "strength" has claimed the lives of