Communist Insurgency in the Philippines: Its Present Status and Future Prospects

摘要

The Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia beset with a long running communist insurgency problem. Since 1969, the Maoist-based Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its military armed force, the New People's Army (NPA), have been fighting to overthrow the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and establish a Marxist state. On the other hand, the GRP, under five (5) administrations, has been fighting the Communist insurgents, with so many lives and resources sacrificed and wasted, but to no avail. After more than three (3) decades of fighting, neither side can claim victory. For the last 35 years, the government has been fighting the Communist insurgents, so many lives and resources were sacrificed and wasted but the solution to the problem is not in sight. After the end of the Cold War and the collapse of Communism, the Communist insurgents in the Philippines are still a potent force and a main threat to the country's national security.