The couple leading the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front alliance was purportedly captured by combined forces on Saturday night.
According to a tweet by Reuters reporter Manuel Mogato, forces from both the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) have captured Benito and Wilma Tiamzon in an operation in Cebu.
Army and police forces capture Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, leaders of CPP-NPA-NDF, in Cebu on Saturday
— manuel mogato (@manimogs) March 22, 2014
Benito is included in the "Big Five" fugitive list, wherein he is listed with fellow NPA leader Jorge Madlos. He and Madlos are wanted for supposedly participating in high-profile violent incidents, including attacks on three mining firms in 2011.
The Tiamzon's capture follows the arrest of Delfin Lee, who is accused of using fake documents to take billion-peso loans for "ghost" borrowers. Last Wednesday, President Benigno Aquino III foreshadowed another arrest during his visit to the Pinoy Music Summit, though he did not divulge specific details.
However, according to another tweet by Mogato, this is not the arrest Aquino was referring to in his statement.
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/353721/news/nation/cpp-npa-ndf-leaders-arrested-by-afp-pnp-forces
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