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Timeline of the New People's Army rebellion

The following is the timeline of events of CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion, a conflict between the government of the Philippines, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), the New People's Army (NPA) and the National Democratic Front (NDF).

1970s

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1971

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Main article: 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing

1972

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  • 4 July - The MV Karagatan, which was supposed to bring armaments supplied by China to the NPA reaches Digoyo Point in Palanan, Isabela. However the ship is discovered by a military patrol and is abandoned as it runs aground.[5]
  • 18 July - A government raid on an NPA hideout in Cordon, Isabela leads to the discovery of the so-called Taringsing Documents, outlining plans by the CPP-NPA to overthrow the government by 1973.
  • 21 September - President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law, citing the communist rebellion and related incidents. However, its implementation is delayed for 2 days.
  • 22 September - Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile escapes an alleged ambush blamed on the NPA in San Juan, Metro Manila, providing the Marcos regime with an excuse to implement Martial Law
  • 23 September - Martial Law is finally announced on television by President Marcos hours after series of mass arrests of against dissidents, including communist supporters. Thousands are detained and several are killed or forcibly disappeared in the ensuing crackdown which lasts for 14 years. Others go into hiding or exile or take up arms by joining the NPA in the provinces
  • late September to December - The military launches its first major operation against the NPA's primary stronghold in the Sierra Madre mountains in San Mariano, Isabela, forcing the CPP leadership to disperse nationwide but fails in its objective to eliminate the rebellion in Isabela.

1976

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  • 27 August – President Ferdinand Marcos announced the capture of top NPA commander Victor Corpus. The announcement followed the previous week's arrest of NPA's second in command Bernabe Buscayno and 23 NPA officers. Marcos described the arrests as the final blow to the insurgency.[citation needed]
  • 13 November – NPA rebels attacked a logging truck in Mambusao, Davao Oriental. Six security troops were killed and three were wounded.[citation needed]
  • 22 November – NPA rebels staged a raid on 5 barrios situated on the perimeter of Clark Air Base, seizing 43 weapons from the local CHDF militia.[citation needed]

1977

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1980s

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1981

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  • 19 April – Seventeen people were killed in a grenade attack on San Pedro cathedral, Davao City, during mass. Two grenades were thrown into the congregation as the traditional Easter service was concluding.[6] New People's Army rebels were among several groups suspected of blame, and two young Marxists were apprehended for the attack.[7]

1983

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1985

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1986

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  • 1–2 March – In separate ambushes in Northern Samar on March 1, and in Leyte on March 2, three policemen were killed. Meanwhile, in Cebu City, a rebel leader was killed in a shootout.[10]
  • 3 March – A police vehicle was ambushed by about 60 men, believed to belong to the NPA, near Guinobatan, Albay, killing 14 policemen and a paramilitary sargeant and wounding 13 other policemen and eight passengers of a bus caught in crossfire.[10]
  • 5 March – The government under newly-installed President Corazon Aquino released four CPP members, including CPP founder Jose Maria Sison, NPA chief Bernabe Buscayno, and two members of a liquidation squad, as part of its policy of reconciliation with the Communist rebels, despite objections from the military.[11] The four were the last of all political prisoners, held by the administration of her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, ordered freed; their number varied, ranging from 484 according to the president, to 517 according to presidential spokesperson Rene Saguisag.[12]
  • 13 September - The CPLA made a "sipat" or ceasefire with the Philippine government at the Mt. Data Hotel, in Bauko, Mountain Province. The agreement between the two sides was called the 1986 Mount Data Peace Accord.[13][14]
  • 30 September – Authorities arrest NPA chairman Rodolfo Salas along with his wife and driver outside a Manila hospital amid peace talks between the rebels and the government.[15]
  • 10 December – A 60-day cease fire is enacted between the NPA and the Philippine government.[16]

1987

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  • 22 January – 13 demonstrating farmers are killed by security forces in Mendiola Street, Manila. This leads to the breakdown of peace talks between the government and the CPP-NPA-NDF and the resumption of military offensives against the rebels.

1988

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  • 30 March – A police raid leads to the arrest of NPA chief commander Romulo Kintanar, general secretary Rafael Baylosis and central committee member Benjamin de Vera at a rebel safe house in southern Manila.[17]

1989

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1990s

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1992

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  • The CPP leadership under Jose Maria Sison launches the Second Great Rectification Movement promoting a hardline response to the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. This creates a serious split between its supporters, known as the Reaffirmationists (RAs) and relatively moderate critics, known as the Rejectionists (RJs) that lead to the expulsion and assassination of several members and the establishment of rival political and armed groups throughout the decade.
  • 15 February – 47 government soldiers are killed when the NPA ambushes a military convoy in Marihatag, Surigao del Sur
  • 24 September – President Fidel V. Ramos signs into law Republic Act 7636, which repealed the Anti-Subversion Law of 1957 that outlawed membership in the Communist Party as part of his efforts to open peace negotiations with the CPP-NPA.

1997

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  • 30 October – The NPA raided the police station of Rodriguez, Rizal, ransacking the armory, killing one police officer, and abducting Rene Francisco, the police chief. He was later released on December 5 in Tanay, Rizal.[21]

1998

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  • 16 March – The Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) is signed by the government and the NDFP in The Hague, Netherlands. It calls on both the government and the CPP-NPA-NDFP to adhere to international humanitarian law and provided set mechanisms to oversee the process.

2000s

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2000

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  • From January 15 to February 5, skeletal remains of at least a hundred individuals, mostly NPA rebels, were exhumed by government authorities from various mass graves in Brgy. Taglimao, Cagayan de Oro. They were believed to be victims of a purge by the NPA in the mid-1980s, known as Operation Zombie. Military authorities estimated that more than 4,000 people were killed, in which only 15 were actually "deep penetration agents" (DPAs), the main target. Since 1999, the remains of at least 416 of them had been recovered in the NPA "killing fields" in the said village.[22][23] Some former NPA guerillas confessed that the mass killings, particularly of at least 60 rebels in 1986, were allegedly carried out on orders of CPP founding chairman Jose Maria Sison.[24]
  • February 5 – Suspected communists assassinated a village chief and two civilians in Naga, then part of Zamboanga del Sur.[25]
  • March 2 – About 40 NPA rebels attacked an army detachment in Balilihan, Bohol but immediately withdrew. They later ambushed a truckload of soldiers and militiamen, who had sent to reinforce the detachment, along the way in Catigbian, killing at least 5 soldiers and their officer, as well as 4 militiamen.[26]
  • March 11 – The 43rd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army captured a NPA camp in Bontoc, Southern Leyte; 5 rebels were killed in a firefight.[27]
  • May 9 – Combined forces of the Army's 1st Infantry Battalion's Task Force Banahaw and the regional police mobile group encountered a band of about 50 NPA fighters in Paete, Laguna; 8 suspected rebels were killed.[28]
  • June 15 – Seven soldiers and a militiaman were killed in an ambush by the NPA in Maslog, Eastern Samar.[29]
  • June 28 – NPA insurgents ambushed a military medical mission in Jones, Isabela, killing an Army colonel and 12 of his troops in their worst attack within a decade.[30]
  • July – government forces discovered a mass grave in Baybay, Leyte containing the skeletal remains of more than 10 suspected victims of a rebel purge in the early 1980s.[31]
  • July 3 – A NPA commander identified as Ka Alpha was killed, and three policemen and a civilian were wounded, in a clash in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro.[30]
  • July 4 – 60 suspected NPA rebels ambushed a police team tasked to investigate the killing of a barangay chairman a day prior, in a mountain village in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro, killing 8 of them and wounding five others.[30]
  • September 30 – A military group returning from a three-day civic action, was ambushed by the NPA in Paquibato District, Davao City; at least 4 from the group were killed, as well as 5 civilians.[32]
  • November 18 – About 80 NPA rebels attacked a police station in Caramoan, Camarines Sur, later repelled by the policemen; at least 6 guerrillas, a policeman, and a militiaman, were killed.[33]
  • December 3 – A police chief of Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro was assassinated by four unidentified men, believed to be NPA rebels. It was said that it was in retaliation to the death of a certain Ka Joel, leader of a three-man NPA group assigned the town, in an encounter in August.[34]

2001

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  • November 17 – NPA rebels ambushed 25 soldiers of an Army Special Forces platoon on board a dump truck that had hit a landmine in Cateel, Davao Oriental, killing 18 of them; the remaining soldiers returned fire in the ensuing firefight that killed 10 rebels.[35]

2002

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  • On 30 June, one soldier and 15 militants were injured after a skirmish in Nueva Era, Ilocos Norte. Documents and pamphlets were seized from rebel bunkers.[36]

2003

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  • On 19 April, 5 soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in a gun fight with NPA rebels outside Ligao, Albay.[37]

2005

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  • On 13 July, NPA cadres killed nine soldiers and injured three in Ilocos Sur.[citation needed]
  • On 29 September, left-wing party Bayan Muna, accused by security forces of being an NPA front, announced that 53 of its members had been killed by alleged government hired gunmen between 2001 and 2005. Leftist labor movement Kilusan Mayo Uno seconded the accusations, claiming that 33 of its activists were killed in 2005. Satur Ocampo described the killings as "political repression masquerading as counter-insurgency and antiterrorism operations". A PNP official said that the killings would be fully investigated, and following an official enquiry, at least two soldiers were charged with murder.[citation needed]
  • On 28 October, at least 10 militants were wounded in clashes in Surigao del Sur.[citation needed]
  • On 10 November, rebels set light to a public bus in Bataan after the owner refused to pay a revolutionary tax.[citation needed]

2006

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  • January 31 – Ten individuals, including three civilians, died in a clash between the military and NPA rebels in Santa Ignacia, Tarlac.[38]
  • May 18 – A civilian was killed in a military encounter against NPA rebels in Bulan, Sorsogon.[38]
  • June 23 – A rebel ambush in Laguna resulted in the injury of a soldier.[citation needed]
  • June 26 – An NPA-planted landmine hit a military minivan in Camarines Sur, wounding a soldier.[citation needed]
  • July 16 – A soldier and a policeman were killed in a gunfight in Occidental Mindoro. On the same day, the NPA allegedly assassinated an army officer in Bulacan.[citation needed]
  • July 21 – The NPA raided a police station in Isabela, stealing four rifles and a number of communication sets.[citation needed]
  • July 22 – NPA rebels attacked a ferry terminal and a police station in Matnog, Sorsogon.[39]
  • July 24:
    • NPA rebels, had purportedly failed in collecting "revolutionary taxes" from owners of public vehicles, detonated two landmines on a highway in Tago, Surigao del Sur, hitting a jeepney wherein five of its passengers were seriously injured, along with ten pedestrians.[38][39]
    • NPA taken hostage some fifty civilians in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, as they gathered them in a checkpoint set up by some hundred rebels led by George Madlos (Ka Oris). Some were released later that day.[39]
    • On the same day, suspected NPA members set fire to a Globe telecommunications tower in Camarines Sur.[citation needed]
  • August 8 – An NPA attack caused the injury of five soldiers who were at the time packing relief supplies for evacuees from the eruption of Mayon Volcano. In a separate incident, the AFP killed five rebels and lost one soldier during clashes with the NPA.[citation needed]

2007

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  • In May, the NPA imposed a countrywide campaign tax on politicians willing to participate in the midterm elections. According to a PNP source, the victorious candidate of the Albay governor's race paid the NPA a total of $800,000. Former governor Fernando Gonzales accused the NPA of denying him entry into the southern regions of the province. The rebels also intensified their attacks before the election, resulting in the deaths of 18 people.[citation needed]
  • May 28 – Eight soldiers were wounded as NPA rebels ambushed a military convoy in Aurora.[40]
  • On 7 June, the NPA engaged AFP troops in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. Both sides issued conflicting reports concerning incident: a government spokesman announced the death of nine rebels and four soldiers, while the NPA denied claimed to have killed 15 soldiers and suffering one fatality.[41]
  • On 15 June, the AFP clashed with insurgents in Compostela Valley. Nine militants and four soldiers were killed during the battle.[citation needed]
  • On 16 June, NPA fighters killed four policemen in Catanduanes. Weapons were removed from the killed officers.[citation needed]
  • On 17 June, a squad of militants detonated three bombs at a Globe Telecom tower in Iloilo after disarming the security guards on the site.[citation needed]
  • On 24 June, several dozen guerrillas carried out a raid on the town hall of Dangcagan, Bukidnon. One police officer was killed as the rebels fled with eight stolen weapons.[citation needed]
  • On 29 June, a band of militants launched an offensive on an AFP patrol base in Agusan del Norte. Eight militants and seven AFP soldiers were killed, and the rebels abducted three AFP personnel.[citation needed]
  • On 31 June, three guerrillas were killed by the Philippine Army in Agusan del Norte.[citation needed]

2008

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2009

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  • On 13 November, an NPA attack on a logging site resulted in 23 deaths.[45]

2010s

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2010

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  • On 15 May at around 14:50, a truck carrying members of the Philippine Army was bombed in Davao City. One soldier died and two injured soldiers were evacuated to Davao Medical Center.[46]
  • On 20 May, a team from the Philippine National Police Special Action Force were aboard their vehicle when suspected NPA rebels detonated a land mine at San Jose village in Antipolo, Rizal at around 6 am.[47]
  • On 13 July, the NPA executed Mateo Biong, Jr., a drug cartel leader and former mayor of Giporlos, Eastern Samar. Biong was accused of killing rival drug dealers, illegal logging and mining, and misuse of public funds.[citation needed]
  • On 26 September, security forces killed top NPA commander Elmer Osila during clashes in Goa, Camarines Sur.[citation needed]
  • On 14 December, ten soldiers were killed and two injured after a guerrilla ambush in Las Navas, Northern Samar. The rebels took 11 rifles from the killed soldiers.[citation needed]
  • On 15 December, two civilians were killed, one of them a 15-year-old boy and the other a former chairman of Barangay Poponton, in an ambush on a pump boat along Hinaga River in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Five soldiers and a civilian were reported missing as a result of the ambush carried out with automatic weapons at around 5 pm that left the civilian vessel heavily damaged. The attack was believed to have been carried out by an undetermined number of NPA rebels who were said to be hiding along the forested area of the river.[48]

2011

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  • On 26 May, three construction workers are killed and another wounded in an attack staged by leftist rebels in the ore-rich town of Tampakan, South Cotabato. Ten gunmen, believed to be NPA rebels, ambushed a convoy of five trucks at around 1:30pm with small arms and grenades in the village of Danlag.[49]
  • On 2 June, the PNP arrested rebel explosive expert Ryan Sison in Dalahican village, Lucena, Quezon, confiscating IED components.[citation needed]
  • On 4 July, a closure agreement between the CPLA and the Government of the Philippines was signed at Rizal Hall in Malacañang Palace. The agreement called for the disarmament of the group, the reintegration of the militants into mainstream society and the conversion of the militant group into a socio-economic organization.[50]
  • On 26 July, a government militiaman was killed and one wounded in Barangay Gumitan, Marilog district, Davao City.[citation needed]
  • On 3 October, a band of 200 NPA fighters set fire to equipment belonging to mining corporations in the villages of Cagdianao and Taganito, in Claver, Surigao del Norte.[51]

2012

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  • On 16 January, six insurgents were killed during a clash in a Japanese banana plantation in Compostela Valley.[52]
  • On 9 April, rebels carried out a raid on the police station of Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur, stealing weapons and taking hostage a policeman, who was later released.[53]
  • On 19 April, an IED detonated by the NPA killed three and injured two soldiers in New Upian, Barangay Marilog, Marilog district, Davao City.[54]
  • On 23 April, militants stole several high-powered assault rifles from a security agency in Butuan, Agusan del Norte, after posing as National Bureau of Investigation agents.[53]
  • On 25 April, an NPA attack resulted in the deaths of 11 soldiers and 2 civilians in Ifugao.[53]
  • On 29 April, militants killed four soldiers and a civilian PDT member in Labo, Camarines Norte, and took their weapons.[53]
  • On 7 May, the NPA claimed to have carried out an ambush in Trento, Agusan del Sur, and Monkayo, Compostela Valley, killing three soldiers, and wounding four. In a second incident, two soldiers were wounded in the vicinity of the Bahayan river, Trento. The AFP responded by bombing Trento, displacing 80 families.[55]
  • On 14 May, a soldier was killed during a shootout in Barangay Bucalan in Canlaon, Negros Oriental.[53]
  • On 20 May, rebels sabotaged equipment stationed at an airport construction site in Albay.[53]
  • On 24 May, NPA agents assassinated an intelligence officer at the cockfighting pit of Lagonglong, Misamis Oriental.[53]

2013

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  • January 27 – Twenty suspected NPA guerrillas ambushed a truck, with policemen and village officials among those aboard, in La Castellana, Negros Occidental; nine people, including a policeman and three village officials, were killed.[56][57]
  • On 28 February, authorities detained the NPA's Central Visayas commander Ruben Nabas along with his secretary. On the same day, two NPA members surrendered to the authorities of Barangay Del Pilar, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte.[58]
  • On 7 May, two soldiers were killed while escorting election officials in Kalinga.[59]
  • On 11 May, rebels of the communist New People's Army allegedly ambushed the convoy of Kadingilan, Bukidnon mayor Joelito Jacosalem Talaid, wounding him and killing four of his bodyguards. A radio report stated the mayor had been shot in the leg.[60] Talaid was traveling through Barangay Kibogtok when he and his bodyguards were stopped by up to 10 armed men. Talaid was also allegedly forced to hand over 7 million Philippine pesos worth of cash to the suspects.[61]
  • On 20 May, NPA militants raided the office of a security agency in Orange Valley village, Tagum, Davao del Norte, stealing firearms, ammunition and bulletproof vests. They also detonated an IED on a national highway in Barangay Pandapan, Tagum, injuring five soldiers and a civilian.[62]
  • On 27 May, a group of 30 rebels ambushed a Special Action Force patrol in Capagaran village, Allacapan, Cagayan, killing 8 policemen and injuring 7 others.[63]
  • On 21 August, one soldier was killed and three were wounded in a skirmish in Purok, Barangay Balagan in San Mariano, Isabela. Security forces seized two IEDs and propaganda materials.[64]
  • On 30 August, Philippine Air Force helicopters bombed rebel positions in the northern area of Sagada, Mountain Province, following a clash that took place a day earlier during which two policemen were wounded.[65]
  • On 5 December, NPA officer Rene Rabulan Briones was killed in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur, during a shootout with the Philippine military.[66]
  • On 14 December, the NPA raided a police station in Kibawe, Bukidnon. A police officer was killed, and the insurgents stole 13 firearms before escaping in four cars.[67][68]

2014

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  • On 1 January, suspected NPA members gunned down Demetrio Capilastique, a leading figure of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB), in Badiangan, Iloilo.[69]
  • On 22 March, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Chairman Benito Tiamzon, his wife Wilma Tiamzon (secretary general of the NPA) and five others were arrested in Barangay Zaragosa, Aloguinsan, Cebu. The Tiamzons had a standing warrant of arrest orders for crimes against humanity, including charges of murder, multiple murder and frustrated murder.[70][71]
  • On 27 March, Andrea Rosal, daughter of deceased former NPA spokesman "Ka Roger" Rosal, was arrested in Caloocan.[72]
  • Between 7–10 April, the NPA set fire to vehicles and heavy equipment belonging to mining companies in Masara village in Maco and Pantukan, Compostela Valley, after alleged environmental damage caused by the mining companies.[73]
  • 17 April – insurgents clashed with a detachment of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) in Barangay San Pascual, Catarman, Northern Samar. There were no casualties.[74]
  • 20 May – five communist militants were killed in two separate encounters in President Roxas, Cotabato and Tayabas, Quezon. One soldier was wounded. Government forces seized weaponry, radios, ammunition and propaganda materials.[75]
  • 23 May – at least five NPA rebels were killed and two captured in a firefight in Barangay Balocawe, Matnog, Sorsogon.[76]
  • 8 June – security forces captured NPA commander Nasyo in Tanjay, Negros Oriental.[77]
  • 16 July – an NDF spokesman announced that the NPA had suffered 14 fatalities following simultaneous attacks against private armies in Santa Irene, Prosperidad, Barangay Bitan-agan, San Francisco, Agusan del Sur. A civilian and a private army commander were also killed in the incident, and NDF claimed to have seized a number of weapons during the raids.[78]
  • 31 July – One soldier and an unspecified number of rebels were killed in a firefight in Tapaz, Capiz.[79]
  • 6 August – The AFP arrested top militant commander Eduardo Almores Esteban in Landheights subdivision in Barangay Buntala, Jaro, Iloilo City.[80]
  • 4 September – Five NPA fighters died in an encounter with an army patrol in Lacub, Abra.[81]
  • 3 November – NPA gunmen killed two soldiers in Daraga, Albay .[82]
  • 5 November – The AFP engaged suspected NPA insurgents, killing three fighters and seizing nine weapons, in Sitio Tubak, Barangay Nomol, Maasim, Sarangani.[83]
  • 23 November – Three civilians were injured in an NPA attack on an army patrol post in Sitio Guiwanon, Barangay Danao, San Jacinto, Masbate.[84]
  • 25 November – The PNP detained rebel commander Billy Morado along with another insurgent in Caloocan.[85]
  • 5 December – a security force patrol clashed with guerrillas in Sitio Upper Balantang, Barangay Cabuyuan, Mabini, Compostela Valley, killing five rebels.[86]
  • 17 December – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group arrested NPA commander Jordan Reyes Donillo at a checkpoint located in Barangay Magnaga, Pantukan, Compostela Valley. On the same day, the NPA released a statement claiming to have killed 40 government loyalists, including policemen, soldiers and militia, in the course of 28 operations in December.[87]
  • 26 December – The Philippine government and the Communist Party of the Philippines agreed to renew peace talks.[88][89]
  • 29 December – Three soldiers were killed in a communist ambush in Mabini, Compostela Valley.[90]

2015

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  • 16 January – Three NPA officers surrendered to authorities in Capiz, the rebels belonged to the Tugalbong and Baloy platoons of the NPA.[91]
  • 23 January – Government troops clashed with NPA militants in Sitio Brazil, Mat-i, Surigao City and Imbayao, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. No casualties were reported, and the Philippine Army seized two rifles and a grenade launcher in the former encounter.[92]
  • 28 January – NPA rebels killed a soldier of the 69th Infantry Battalion in an ambush in the Paquibato district, Davao City.[93]
  • 2 February – Rebels executed Rufino Dumayas, a former NPA commander, after accusing him of revealing the identities of several rebels and cooperating with security forces.[94]
  • 5 February – An army officer was killed by communist guerrillas in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Two rebels were later arrested.[95]
  • 6 February – Security forces overpowered a group of NPA rebels, forcing them to flee, in Barangay Rojales, Carmen, Agusan del Norte. Numerous weapons, explosives and communication equipment were seized, and one rebel was arrested.[96]
  • 8 February – Authorities arrested Raunil Mortejo, Reboy Gandinao and Jasmin Badilla, three members of NPA's Eastern Mindanao Command, in Barangay Sinaragan, Matanao, Davao del Sur, and in Barangay Lumintao, Quezon, Bukidnon.[97]
  • 9 February – Security forces uncovered NPA encampments in Sitio Tig-atay, Barangay Igpaho, Tubungan, Iloilo, and Sitio Tigmarabas, Barangay Ongyod, Miag-ao, Iloilo. The camps had the capacity to accommodate 120 people.[98]
  • 14 March – A landmine detonation killed 3 soldiers and wounded five others, the incident occurred in Los Arcos, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur.[99]
  • 1 April – Two soldiers and a civilian were killed in an NPA ambush in Sityo Ban-as, Barangay Mahayag, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur, seven people were also wounded.[100]
  • 2 June – Authorities detained the NPA's top commander Adelberto Silva in Bacoor, Cavite south of Manila, grenades and documentation were also recovered during the operation.[101]

2016

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Further information: Timeline of New People's Army attacks (2016)

2017

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  • 30 January – Two soldiers were killed following an ambush staged by suspected NPA guerrillas in Echague, Isabela.[102]
  • 8 February – Heavy equipment were set on fire by rebels in San Francisco, Quezon.[103][104]
  • 8 February – A soldier was killed in a firefight in Santo Niño, Cagayan.[103]
  • 9 February – Rebels burned two trucks in Itogon, Benguet.[103]
  • 9 February – NPA rebels killed a resident and abducted two others in Talakag, Bukidnon.[103]
  • 13 February – Four rebels were killed in a firefight with government troops in Aroroy, Masbate.[105]
  • 16 February – Two soldiers and three NPA rebels were killed while 15 other troops were wounded in a land mine attack and clashes in Davao City.[106]
  • 8 March – Rebels ambushed a police convoy, resulting in 4 policemen killed and injuring another, in Bansalan, Davao del Sur.[107]
  • 18 March – A rebel was killed in an encounter with government troops in Kitcharao, Agusan del Norte.[108]
  • 30 March – An encounter between the military and rebels took place in General Nakar, Quezon. Two soldiers and 10 rebels were killed.[109]
  • 28 July – Firefight between government forces and the NPA in Trece Martires village, Casiguran, Sorsogon left 4 rebels dead.[110]

2018

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  • 23 January –
  • 25 January – Insurgents killed an Army officer and wounded 2 soldiers in a firefight in Paquibato proper, Davao City.[113]
  • 28 January – A man was kidnapped and later executed by the NPA in San Miguel, Surigao del Sur.[114]
  • 15 August – Seven NPA militants were killed during a gunfight that lasted 33 minutes, in San Jose, Antique.[115][116]
  • 28 December – The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) was formed, pursuant to Executive Order No. 70 issued by President Rodrigo Duterte[117]
  • 30 December – Six militants were killed in Negros Oriental in separate encounters with government forces, while 24 arrested during a series of anti-rebels raids including former Guihulngan Mayor Cesar Macalua, who was allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade.[118]

2019

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  • November 26 – CPP-NPA Leader Jaime "Ka Diego" Padilla was captured and arrested in San Juan, Metro Manila after undergoing an executive checkup in Cardinal Santos Medical Center. Authorities said that he was carrying P4.4 million in revolutionary tax he collected.[119]

2020s

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2020

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2021

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  • January 6 – A military officer of the 72nd Division Reconnaissance Group was killed in a shootout with rebels in Abra.[120]
  • January 12 – Government employee Pio Lingatong was assassinated by militants in Barangay Aloja, Batuan, Bohol.[121]
  • January 17 – 3 soldiers were killed and 1 were wounded in an ambush in Legazpi City, Albay, the soldiers were transporting intel when they were attacked.[122]
  • January 20 – Several militants killed 2 kidnapped village officials in Masbate, 1 being a councilman and another being a watchman.[123]
  • January 22 – 1 soldier was killed in a shootout with rebels in Lamag village, Quirino, Ilocos Sur.[124]
  • January 28 – Shots were fired at the Sison police station in Surigao del Norte, 2 hours later a group of rebels in the same area ambushed a patrol, a military officer sustained head injuries.[125]
  • January 30 – A skirmish occurred between militiamen and rebels in Don Victoriano Chiongbian, Misamis Occidental, at least 1 militiaman was injured.[126]
  • February 3 – A soldier was wounded by an IED during a skirmish with rebels in the Umayam tribe region of Bukidnon.[127]
  • February 4 – Rebels assassinated militiaman Darwin Juagpao in Tandag, Surigao del Sur.[128]
  • February 5 – 2 soldiers were killed and 1 wounded during a clash with rebels in Quezon.[129]
  • February 8 – Rebels assassinated militiaman Lander Sta. Ana Garde in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental.[130]
  • February 9 – A military lieutenant was killed along with 2 rebels during intense clashes in Quezon.[131]
  • February 17 – 2 former mayors and 2 others were assassinated during a rebel ambush in Barangay Ignacio B. Jurado, Lasam, Cagayan. NPA propaganda was found near the scene and there were no less than 6 attackers.[132]
  • February 18 – A soldier was wounded during a skirmish with rebels in San Joaquin, Iloilo.[133]
  • February 19 – A Special Action Force member with the Philippine National Police was wounded in a shootout with rebels in Northern Samar.[134]
  • February 22 – 4 Special Action Force troopers and 2 civilians were wounded by a rebel IED on a highway in Barangay Putiao, Pilar, Sorsogon, the rebels also engaged in a brief firefight with the police before retreating.[135]
  • February 25 – Rebels torched a Dump Truck and a Backhoe in Barangay Binocaran, Malimono, Surigao del Norte.[136]
  • February 28 – Village chief Julie Catamin was killed during a drive-by in Barangay Roosevelt, Tapaz, Capiz.[137][138]
  • March 3 – Rebels detonated a landmine near a police car in Janiuay, Iloilo. Nobody was injured.[139]
  • June 8 – Keith Absalon and his brother Nolven were killed in a Masbate City blast, after 24 NPA rebels detonated landmines and explosives. Later, one rebel was arrested.[140]
  • August 16 – An encounter between government forces and the NPA in Dolores, Eastern Samar resulted to deaths of at least 16 rebels.[141]
  • October 30 – NPA Leader Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos was slain after a clash with military troops in Impasugong, Bukidnon.[142]
  • December 17 – Four suspected NPA members died in an encounter between combined forces of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army's 903rd Infantry Brigade and the police, and at least 20 suspected rebels, at the boundary of Esperanza and Placer in Masbate.[143]
  • In 2021, 142 suspected NPA members were neutralized, according to a Philippine Army report: 71 surrendered, 49 died in encounters, 22 were arrested. Among those neutralized were 12 high-ranking leaders.[144]

2022

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  • February 24 – alleged rebels were killed in Andap village, New Bataan, Davao de Oro by the government troops.[145]
  • June 8 – An NPA member was killed in an encounter in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat.[146]
  • July 6 – Four rebels involved in the ambush of policemen in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental in February, were killed in an encounter.[147]
  • July 26 – Three suspected NPA rebels died in a gunbattle in Canlaon, Negros Oriental.[148]
  • July 30 – Three NPA rebels, including a high-ranking leader, were killed in encounters in Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat.[149]
  • August 22 – A boat carrying ten NPA members, reportedly including leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, exploded during an encounter with the military's Joint Task Force Storm off Catbalogan, Samar. Some remains were later retrieved.[150] Both the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency[151][152][153] and the Communist Party of the Philippines confirmed the deaths of the Tiamzons, with the latter disputing the circumstances presented by the Armed Forces of the Philippines.[154]
  • September 6 – The son and wife of Ka Oris Madlos' Vincent Isagani Madlos and Angie Polandres Salinas were killed after an encounter with members of the 8th Infantry Battalion under the 403rd Infantry Brigade in Barangay Kapitan Bayong, Bukidnon.[155]
  • September 23 – A clash between government troops and communist militants occurred in Esperanza, Sultan Kudarat.[156]
  • October 6–19 – Series of encounters between troops of the 94th Infantry Battalion (94IB) of the Philippine Army (PA) and NPA rebels began on October 6 in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan, Negros Occidental. Two soldiers were killed on October 8;[157] Romeo Nanta, commanding officer of the Regional Operational Command of Komiteng Rehiyon-Negros, was also killed on October 10. As a result, more than 3,000 individuals from barangays Carabalan and Cabadiangan were temporarily displaced until October 18.[158] On October 12, the 94IB seized a communist rebels' hideout.[159] On October 19, it was confirmed that encounter sites were cleared by the army.[160]
  • October 7 – Two soldiers were killed in an NPA attack in Jipapad, Eastern Samar.[157]
  • October 26 – Two rebels were killed in an encounter in Garchitorena, Camarines Sur.[161]
  • October 30 – A top NPA leader was killed in an encounter in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat.[162]
  • November 21 – A local NPA guerrilla unit commander in Central Negros was killed in a brief encounter in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental. By that time, three rebels had been killed in series of clashes in the city for the past weeks.[163]
  • November 23 – Six rebels from the NPA's Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee, including its leader, were killed in an encounter with Army troopers in Las Navas, Northern Samar.[153][164][165]
  • November 24
  • December 16 – Jose Maria Sison, founding chairperson of the CPP, died after a two-week hospital confinement in Utrecht, the Netherlands.[168][169]

2023

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  • January 9 and 10 – A suspected NPA rebel was killed in an encounter in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental on January 9. Another was killed in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental the following day.[170]
  • February 4–5 – Two separate clashes between government forces and NPA rebels occurred in a village in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental. Following the second encounter, the bodies of three rebels and their weapons were recovered.[171]
  • February 9 – Five rebels were killed in a dawn encounter between soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, who were conducting a security patrol, and some 20 NPA members in Cawayan, Masbate; four more were arrested.[172]
  • February 18 – Two alleged NPA rebels were killed in separate military operations in Borongan, Eastern Samar and T'Boli, South Cotabato.[173]
  • February 20 – Two soldiers of the 31st IB of the Philippine Army, part of the augmentation force in the search operations for victims of a plane crash on Mayon volcano, were shot dead by three NPAs in Camalig, Albay.[174]
  • March 1 – Three separate clashes between NPA guerrillas and the 94th IB in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental, in one of the sites of similar incidents in 2022, killed four suspected NPA members and injured a soldier.[175][176]
  • March 2 – Three NPA rebels were killed in a military encounter in Senator Ninoy Aquino, Sultan Kudarat.[175][177]
  • March 9 and 15 – Two insurgents were killed in separate encounters between the military and the NPA in Balbalan, Kalinga.[175][178]
  • March 11:
  • March 19 – An NPA member was killed in an encounter in Talakag, Bukidnon.[179]
  • March 20 – An NPA rebel and a soldier were killed in an encounter in Silvino Lobos, Northern Samar.[179][180]
  • Late March – Series of clashes between the military and NPA rebels occurred in Masbate. On March 20, a soldier was killed in a five-minute encounter in Cawayan;[179][181] on March 22, encounters following bomb explosions occurred in Placer and Dimasalang.[182]
  • March 27 and 30 – Series of operations by the Army occurred in a village in Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. On March 27, two ranking NPA leaders in Caraga were killed. Three days later, a secretary of two NPA local committees was also killed.[183]
  • March 31 – Two clashes erupted between troops of the 80th IB of the 2nd Infantry Division and around 30 NPA rebels in the vicinity of Wawa Dam, Rizal. A soldier was killed and another two were wounded while the casualties on the rebel side were undetermined.[184][185]
  • April 18 – A rebel was killed in a brief gunfight in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental.[186]
  • April 20 – An encounter between the NPA and government troops occurred in Negros Occidental, beginning in Isabela and continued at the boundary with Binalbagan,[186] the municipality wherein Rogelio Posadas, secretary of the CPP-NPA regional committee in Central Visayas, died.[187] In the same province, an alleged NPA member was killed in another encounter in Escalante.[188]
  • April 28 – An NPA rebel was killed in a clash in Canlaon, Negros Oriental.[189]
  • April 30 – The Army's 803rd Infantry Battalion engaged around 40 NPA members in a pre-dawn armed encounter in an upland village in Bobon, Northern Samar, with at least seven suspected rebels killed. A wounded medical officer of the rebels later surrendered in Catarman.[190]
  • May 1 – An encounter between troops of the 80th Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division and approximately 20 NPA rebels occurred in Brgy. Puray, Rodriguez, Rizal. The 30-minute firefight resulted in the withdrawal of the rebels. Casualties on rebel side were undetermined; war materiel were recovered.[191]
  • May 3 – An alleged NPA rebel was killed in an encounter in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.[192]
  • May 20–21 – The Army's 62nd Infantry Battalion launched combat operations in a village in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on May 20, with three separate morning encounters with a number of NPA rebels, five of them were killed.[193][194] Tracking down the retreating rebels at Guihulngan, Negros Oriental the following day, they engaged in another firefight with at least eight NPA rebels, four more were killed.[193][195]
  • May 21 – An alleged NPA rebel was killed in a military encounter in Cauayan, Negros Occidental.[193]
  • May 28 – Four NPA rebels were killed in a military encounter in Catarman, Northern Samar.[196]
  • May 30 - Rebel forces ambush a Philippines Army convoy in Barangay Malisbong, Sablayan. None are killed. 11 individuals were charged for terrorism in relation to this attack in February 2023.[197]
  • June 16 – Five NPA rebels were killed in a military operation at Mount Apo-Apo in Butuan. Two more rebels were killed in separate encounters in Claveria, Misamis Oriental and in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.[198]
  • July 7 – An NPA rebel was killed following a series of clashes with the military in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.[199]
  • July 20 – Two NPA rebels, one of them an alleged leader in central Negros, were killed in a clash with the military in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental.[200]
  • July 26 – An NPA leader in Northern Mindanao was killed in a military encounter in Gingoog, Misamis Oriental.[201]
  • August 5–6 – Military encounters occurred at Guihulngan, Negros Oriental and during pursuit operations at Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental the following day with an alleged unidentified NPA rebel killed.[202]
  • August 19
  • August 23 – A commanding officer of the CPP–NPA North Central Mindanao Regional Committee was killed in a military encounter in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.[206]
  • August 24, 26 – A government soldier was killed in a military encounter with the NPA in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on August 24. Two days later, another encounter came at the same site as the government troops were conducting pursuit operations, killing an unidentified NPA rebel.[207]
  • September 1 – Five members of the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit were killed in an encounter with NPA rebels in Tagkawayan, Quezon.[208]
  • September 7 – Six alleged NPA rebels were killed in a series of military encounters in Bilar, Bohol.[209][210]
  • September 21 – Five NPA members, along with a civilian, were killed in a clash between the Army 47th Infantry Battalion and an NPA regional committee in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.[211][212]
  • November 28 –The government and the CPP-NPA said that they would resume peace talks after a six-year hiatus.[213]
  • December 17 – Six rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash between the Army and the NPA in Balayan, Batangas.[214]
  • December 25 – Nine rebels were killed during clashes with the military in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.[215]
  • December 28 – Four rebels, including a guerrilla front leader, were killed during clashes with the military in Sergio Osmeña, Zamboanga del Norte.[216]

2024

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  • January 13 – President Bongbong Marcos announced that the NPA no longer had any active guerrilla fronts in the country.[217]
  • January 31 - NPA claimed to have killed three 80th IBPA troops.[218]
  • February 15 - Rebels of the Roselyn Jean Pell Command - Northern Negros Guerrilla Front killed 55-year old Allan Macasling, who 'created fear' for residents of Toboso. They obtained two guns, bullets, two smartphones, and 'various IDs' from the man, whom they accused of land grabbing and counter-revolution.[219][220]
  • February 21–22 – Three NPA rebels were killed and four soldiers were injured following a series of encounters in Escalante, Negros Occidental. The military later launched an airstrike.[221]
  • February 23 – According to the Philippine Government, five NPA rebels and a police officer were killed in an encounter between government troops and the NPA in Bilar, Bohol.[222] The CPP disputes this, claiming that there was no military encounter, and that the 5 individuals were captured and then executed by the military.[223]
  • February 27 - Top NPA leader Aprecia Rosete alias "Bambam" of the CPP-NPA Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee was killed in an encounter with government forces belonging to the 102nd Infantry Brigade in the village of Malagalad, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur; war material recovered.[224][225]
  • April 4 - A farmer named Marlon Catacio was shot dead by 62nd IB in a false encounter, according to NPA.[226]
  • April 11 - Leonardo Panaligan Command, under instruction of NPA Central Negros' People's Revolutionary Court, awarded death penalty to Danny Boy Bartolome due to his alleged spying for the 62nd IB. NPA fighters seized two smartphones from his home. They had previously expelled him from the local area but due to his not complying with this order, executed him.[227]
  • April 18 - NPA claimed Jose Rapsing Command to have killed two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 96th Infantry Battalion, and 'seriously wounded' two others.[228]

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