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With the continuous development in our world, change can be drastic. Only
a few can go by the flow of this changes which inflicts a complication in the harmony
of everyone. The emergence of insurgency is very common for the people in third
world countries for they are hungry for justice and equality. Insurgency, by definition,
is a form of revolt or rebellion against the government. The principal or root causes
for this kind of action are invariably to be found in socio-economic, political or
religious domains; the nature and scope may depend upon the nature of the
demands, grievances and motivations of the people.
In the Philippines, insurgency has been a formidable threat in the country for
the past three (3) decades and five (5) Philippine Presidents. The most prominent
rebel group in the Philippines is the CPP-NPA-NDF and has been considered as the
world’s largest Communist insurgency. It is a communist group whose main objective
is to establish or build a new democratic state in the Philippines. They envision a
state led by the working class and to expel or withdraw from the influence of the
United States of America.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and
National Democratic Font (NDF) have a reputation of being involved in extortion
activities and violence, targeting innocent people and industries, which can be
considered as terrorism. The government pursued great efforts to give what this
group want in order to avoid further complications or harm especially to the innocent
civilians. In the recorded attacks, the CPP-NPA-NDF group may be considered
belligerent under the International Humanitarian law. One specific example was the
October 3, 2011 attack on the three mining companies in Surigao del Norte, where
they took four (4) hostages, and it was due to the unpaid so-called revolutionary
taxes to the group.
To reduce the fight between Philippine Government and the groups of CPP-
NPA-NDF the government should arrange bilateral talks by means of peace and
pursuing productive rules and to know their sides as also to re-organize those
coalition for not doing such destructive and more violent way of having their rights.
And to prevent further recruitment the government must give proper education to
the people within the NPA Resides for them to be informed what was right. And also
our government should Improve the social awareness for the Filipino citizen, so that
the people will have a better understanding about NPA.
New People Army’s see themselves as protector of the powerless and voiceless
in a society that favors the rich. The government should hear out the NPA’s demand
if it’s doable or not and also strengthen the policy to attain guns especially for the
public that compromise to avoid future effect on attaining arms.