Enduring insurgency: New People's Army marches on, TERRORISM & INSURGENCY


After a hiatus of more than a year, representatives of the Maoist movement and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) met in December 2010 for preliminary talks aimed at bringing an end to the world's longest running communist insurgency. While the negotiations could help reduce the human impact of a conflict that has claimed the lives of between 40,000 and 120,000 people, there is no real prospect of peace in the short to medium term.


Since its emergence in the late 1960s, the Maoist rebellion has proved resilient. Over the years, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has launched several military campaigns, the most recent being Oplan Bantay Laya II, and declared the insurgents' irreversible decline at least twice since the end of the Cold War and the decline of communism worldwide. However, the movement has recovered each time.

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Publication date Jan 13, 2011
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