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The Commanding General of the Philippine Army (CGPA) is the overall commander and highest ranking officer commissioned to serve in the Philippine Army. The position concurrently holds the three-star rank of Lieutenant General. [2] The commanding general is appointed by the President of the Philippines and confirmed by the Commission on ...
The July 1972 MV Karagatan incident was an unsuccessful attempt by the New People's Army — the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist [1] [2] Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) — to smuggle armaments from China into the Philippines via the ship MV Karagatan.
The Philippines campaign, Battle of the Philippines, Second Philippines campaign, or the Liberation of the Philippines, codenamed Operation Musketeer I, II, and III, was the American, Mexican, Australian and Filipino campaign to defeat and expel the Imperial Japanese forces occupying the Philippines during World War II.
Years later, the New People's Army eventually claimed responsibility for his assassination. Filipino nationals Juanito T. Itaas (principal) and Donato B. Continente (accomplice) were convicted by a Philippine court in 1991 and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Rowe, and 10 to 17 years for the attempted murder of his driver ...
Victor Navarro Corpus (October 4, 1944 – April 4, 2024) was a Filipino military officer and public official best known for his 1970 defection from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to the New People's Army of the Communist Party of the Philippines during the authoritarian regime of Ferdinand Marcos, [1] [2] for his defection from the NPA in 1976, his return to the AFP after the 1986 ...
On January 18, 2021, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana and his office announced to the public the unilateral termination of the agreement citing that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, New People's Army (NPA), both tagged as terrorist organizations by the Anti-Terrorism Council, have been recruiting members inside ...
The Alex Boncayao Brigade (abbreviated as ABB; also known as the SPARU Unit) [2] was the urban assassination unit of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines. Organized in 1984, the unit broke away from the New People's Army as a consequence of a split in ideology during the 1990s.
Former NPA member and Cordillera People’s Liberation Army leader. Killed at his residence due to "crimes against the Cordilleran people and the Revolutionary Movement" and his role in splitting the communist movement in the Cordilleras [17] Carlito Pentecostes Jr. April 21, 2014: Gonzaga, Cagayan: Yes: Mayor of Gonzaga.