No end in sight as Philippines communist revolt marks 50th year.
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.
The NPA launched its rebellion to create a Maoist state on March 29, 1969 -- months before the first human landed on the moon. Its main stronghold is in the Philippines' restive south, but also scattered in the nation's centre and a few areas in the north. This outpaced kidnap-for-ransom group Abu Sayyaf and Islamic State group-aligned factions responsible for periodic spikes in killing like the 2017 Marawi siege.
"NPA is living in a fertile environment," Rommel Banlaoi, chairman of the Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, told AFP.
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