MANILA: Philippine policewoman Ruby Buena's introduction to one of the oldest communist insurgencies in the world was a roadside bomb blast ...
MANILA: Philippine policewoman Ruby Buena's introduction to one of the oldest communist insurgencies in the world was a roadside bomb blast followed seconds later by an eruption of gunfire.
It grew out of the global communist movement, finding fertile soil in the Philippines' stark rich-poor divide.The rebellion also benefited from Ferdinand Marcos's 1972-1986 dictatorship, when the legislature was shuttered, the free press muzzled and thousands of opponents tortured or killed. But while the killing in the so-called Moro insurgency dropped off significantly even before a landmark 2014 peace deal, the NPA has maintained its campaign of violence.
It imposes a so-called"revolutionary tax" in its strongholds, the equivalent of two percent of any business project, that police say generates a minimum of 200 million pesos per year.This year promises to be a particularly lucrative one due to legislative elections set for mid-May. Candidates are hit with"permit-to-campaign" fees if they want to hold events in NPA areas.
The hardship endures even as the Philippines economy has grown at more than six percent per year for most of the last decade, one of the fastest rates in Asia.
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