From the Sun Star-Baguio (Sep 27): CPLA decries hatchet job
MELCHOR Balance or Commander Kawar of the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) lashed back at Arsenio Humiding. Balance was referring to the strong words of Humiding last week when the latter called the CPLA, under recently reelected chairman Mailed Molina, as collectors of revolutionary taxes and protectors of squatters at the Dairy Farm compound along Marcos Highway....Humiding leads another group, which has signed an agreement with the Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process (Opapp) to disarm the CPLA and bring development funds to the Cordillera.
http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/local-news/2012/09/27/cpla-decries-hatchet-job-245104
The Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CPLA) was formed by the charamatic ex-priest Conrado Balweg when he broke away from the CPP/NPA in early 1986. In September of that year, Balweg and the CPLA entered into a ceasefire/peace agreement with the administration of President Corazon Aquino. Balweg was eventually assassinated by the NPA in 1999 (his own brother, a member of the NPA, pulled the trigger). With the loss of Balweg's leadership, the CPLA succumbed to factional discord. There now appears to be at least three CPLA factions.
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