Five members of the Marxist-Leninist Party of the
Philippines-Rebolusyunaryong Hukbong Bayan, a breakaway group from the
Communist Party of the Philippines ,
were killed while another one was captured during an encounter with the Central
Luzon Regional policemen in Mexico
Senior Supt. Rodolfo Recomono, Pampanga Provincial Police
director, said the encounter took place at 1:20 a.m. It stemmed from police
operations against the rebel group who were reported to be engaged in robbery
hold-up, carnapping and gun-for-hire rackets in Pampanga and other provinces of
Central Luzon .
In the issuing firefight, four male rebels and one female
were killed while another one, identified as Ryan Lising, 28, was wounded and
captured.
Seized from the slain rebels were five pistol-type weapons,
a hand grenade, two carbines, one M-16 automatic rifle. No losses were reported
on the police side.
Lising is now undergoing treatment at the Mexico Community
Hospital
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The Marxist-Leninist Party of the Philippines (MLPP) was reportedly formed in 1998 after a number of Central Luzon Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) cadre had a falling out with the Party leadership over ideological issues. MLPP cadre came mainly from the Manila Provisional Regional Party Committee, the National Trade Union Bureau, and the National Peasant Secretariat.
ReplyDeleteThe Rebolusyunaryong Hukbong Bayan (RHB- Revolutionary People's Army) is the armed wing of the MLPP while the Kilusang para sa Pambansang Demokrasya (KPD-Movement for Nationalism and Democracy) functions as the above ground legal umbrella political front organization of the Party.
The RHB was reportedly decimated by encounters with both the Philippine military and the military wing of the CPP, the New People's Army (NPA). The RHB has reportedly been forced to rely on criminal activities such as robbery and auto theft in order to survive.
Over the past ten years or so military/police encounters with the RHB have been rare.