21 August – Two hand grenades explode during an election campaign rally of the Liberal Party attended by about 4,000 people at Plaza Miranda in the district of Quiapo, Manila,[1] causing nine deaths and injuring 95 others.[2] Among those killed instantly were a 5-year-old child and The Manila Times photographer Ben Roxas, and many on stage were injured, including incumbent Senator Jovito Salonga, Liberal Party president Gerardo Roxas and Sergio Osmeña Jr., son of former President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Sergio Osmeña.[3][4] The government of President Ferdinand Marcos accuses the communists of staging the attack and suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
4 July - The MV Karagatan, which was supposed to bring armaments supplied by China to the NPA reaches Digoyo Point in Palanan, Isabela. However the ship is discovered by a military patrol and is abandoned as it runs aground.[5]
18 July - A government raid on an NPA hideout in Cordon, Isabela leads to the discovery of the so-called Taringsing Documents, outlining plans by the CPP-NPA to overthrow the government by 1973.
21 September - President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire Philippines under Martial Law, citing the communist rebellion and related incidents. However, its implementation is delayed for 2 days.
22 September - Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile escapes an alleged ambush blamed on the NPA in San Juan, Metro Manila, providing the Marcos regime with an excuse to implement Martial Law
23 September - Martial Law is finally announced on television by President Marcos hours after series of mass arrests of against dissidents, including communist supporters. Thousands are detained and several are killed or forcibly disappeared in the ensuing crackdown which lasts for 14 years. Others go into hiding or exile or take up arms by joining the NPA in the provinces
late September to December - The military launches its first major operation against the NPA's primary stronghold in the Sierra Madre mountains in San Mariano, Isabela, forcing the CPP leadership to disperse nationwide but fails in its objective to eliminate the rebellion in Isabela.
27 August – President Ferdinand Marcos announced the capture of top NPA commander Victor Corpus. The announcement followed the previous week's arrest of NPA's second in command Bernabe Buscayno and 23 NPA officers. Marcos described the arrests as the final blow to the insurgency.[citation needed]
13 November – NPA rebels attacked a logging truck in Mambusao, Davao Oriental. Six security troops were killed and three were wounded.[citation needed]
22 November – NPA rebels staged a raid on 5 barrios situated on the perimeter of Clark Air Base, seizing 43 weapons from the local CHDF militia.[citation needed]
10 November - CPP chairman Jose Maria Sison is arrested at a roadside checkpoint in San Fernando, La Union. Effective control of the NPA is passed on to commander Rodolfo Salas.
19 April – Seventeen people were killed in a grenade attack on San Pedro cathedral, Davao City, during mass. Two grenades were thrown into the congregation as the traditional Easter service was concluding.[6] New People's Army rebels were among several groups suspected of blame, and two young Marxists were apprehended for the attack.[7]
Between 1982 and 1989, CPP conducts purges;[8] starting with the anti-infiltration campaign, Cadena de Amor, in the Quezon–Bicol Zone (QBZ) that year.[9]
September 29 – About 70–80 NPA rebels ambush an army patrol unit in Godod, Zamboanga del Norte. The truck is carrying at least 57 people; thirty-nine soldiers, including a unit commander from the 4th Infantry Division, and seven civilians are killed in the deadliest attack on the government forces since NPA began major operations a decade prior.[10]
By that year, an anti-DPA (deep-penetration agent) campaign, "Takip Silim" (Dusk), takes place in southern Quezon. About half of some 60 people arrested were killed, mostly civilians and peasants. The CPP regional committee later orders it stopped.[9]
In Davao City, the expansion of the NPA is reported, and by year-end, a local radio station placed the number of both summary executions and guerrilla killings at "more than 600".[11]
April – A project team from an Australian mining consortium, consisting of three Australians and 13 Filipinos, is briefly detained by NPA rebels in Northern Samar.[12]
May – The CPP Mindanao Commission (Mindacom) starts a major anti-infiltration campaign, "Kampanyang Ahos", in Cagayan de Oro. It is conducted in Northern and Southern Mindanao; as well as far as Metro Manila and Cebu. Despite supposedly stopped in December, Ahos continues up to March 1986 in Misamis Oriental and Bukidnon. Between 400 and 1,100 cadres and civilian supporters are reported killed; many are buried in mass graves. In 1987, the CPP Politburo declares that while DPAs are killed in the campaign, there are abuses however as many have been falsely accused.[9]
July 22 – NPA attacks a police station in Quinapondan, Eastern Samar, and takes away several firearms. Neither the police chief nor the five officers resist the raid.[13]
November 19 – Dave Barrios, an assemblyman's assistant, is abducted by three NPA members in the office of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) in Quezon City, being suspected as a military spy.[15] He is believed to be killed during the purge.[16]
According to the CPP, by that year, the number of NPA companies to be maintained is reduced from 15 in 1985 to only two; several guerilla fronts and mass bases are lost in Mindanao.[9]
March – Nine American servicemen are held hostage overnight by NPA guerillas in Kalinga-Apayao after they accidentally enter an NPA territory. They are later released.[17]
March 1–2 – In separate ambushes in Northern Samar on March 1, and in Leyte on March 2, three policemen are killed. Meanwhile, in Cebu City, a rebel leader is killed in a shootout.[18]
March 3 – A police vehicle is ambushed by about 60 men, believed to belong to the NPA, near Guinobatan, Albay, killing 14 policemen and a paramilitary sergeant and wounding 13 other policemen and eight passengers of a bus caught in crossfire.[18]
March 5 – The government under newly installed PresidentCorazon Aquino releases four CPP members, including CPP founder Jose Maria Sison, NPA chief Bernabe Buscayno, and two members of a liquidation squad, as part of its policy of reconciliation with the Communist rebels, despite objections from the military.[19] The four are the last of all political prisoners, held by the administration of her predecessor, Ferdinand Marcos, ordered freed; their number varies, ranging from 484 according to the president, to 517 according to presidential spokesperson Rene Saguisag.[20]
March 14:
About 100 NPA rebels raid a warehouse of the National Food Authority in Allacapan, Cagayan, with a five-hour gunbattle reportedly leaving seven soldiers and a civilian dead and five injured.[21]
Ten militiamen are killed by communist guerillas in an attack in Bohol.[22]
March 15 – Thirty NPA guerillas ambush a government jeep, carrying militiamen and government employees who had met with residents, along a mountain road in Amlan, Negros Oriental, killing 12 including eight employees of the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC), and seriously wounding four.[21][22]
March 19:
Three hundred rebels attack a military detachment in Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte, killing eight and wounding three. They then sack the municipal hall.[23]
Twenty guerillas ambush a jeep in Gonzaga, Cagayan, killing municipal mayor Francisco Baclig and three others on board.[23]
Mid-March – NPA rebels ambush a battalion of troops outside Claveria, Misamis Oriental, seriously wounding five. They then raid the town, resulting in massive evacuations.[24]
March 24 – Fifty heavily armed NPA rebels attack a village in Medina, Misamis Oriental, killing two militiamen and three individuals abducted after suspected of being government informers.[24]
April 13 – More than a hundred guerrillas kidnap all ten patients in a government-owned hospital in Lasam, Cagayan, and set fire to the building.[25]
April 20 – Farmers opened fire on the soldiers conducting "clearing operations" against the rebels in Cagayan, killing three. The ambush occurs amid strengthening rebel control, particularly in Lasam, Alacapan, and Lal-lo.[25]
April 24 – About 30 NPA rebels ambush a military convoy which are carrying about 11 soldiers and three journalists and returning to Tuguegarao, Cagayan, killing at least seven including Manila Bulletin correspondent Pete Mabasa and Reuters photographer Willie Vicoy, which are said the first to be killed while covering the communist insurgency.[26][27]
May 7 – The communists ambush and shoot to death all 14 soldiers of a patrol in Allacapan, Cagayan.[25]
June 3 – An estimated 40 NPA guerrillas ambush eight policemen aboard a jeep in Gonzaga, Cagayan.[28]
July 1:
A military convoy is ambushed by about 70 guerrillas near Gumaca, Quezon, killing 11 soldiers.[29]
Government forces are ambushed by guerillas in Pamplona, Cagayan, with nine people died, including a soldier and a policeman.[29]
August 22 – Eleven members of an obscure religious sect are killed by gunmen in Surigao del Norte, after being reportedly forced to shout "Long love the NPA."[30]
August 24 – A patrol is ambushed by NPA guerrillas in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte. A police chief and four of his men are killed; three more are injured.[31]
30 September – Authorities arrest NPA chairman Rodolfo Salas along with his wife and driver outside a Manila hospital amid peace talks between the rebels and the government.[34]
Juanito Rivera, alleged member of the CPP Executive Committee, is arrested.[9]
Late 1987 or early 1988 – The Melito Glor Command, the NPA unit in the Southern Tagalog, starts another major anti-infiltration campaign "Operation Missing Link" (OPML) to arrest suspected spies. However, it is reported that even some members of its task force are implicated, resulting to the execution of four of the six arrested members; same as several committee members.[9]
22 January – 13 demonstrating farmers are killed by security forces in Mendiola Street, Manila. This leads to the breakdown of peace talks between the government and the CPP-NPA-NDF and the resumption of military offensives against the rebels.
March:
A Metro Manila mayor was injured in an ambush by NPA gunmen which killed seven of his bodyguards.[35]
A landmine ambush in Quezon kills 19 soldiers.[37]
April 14 – About a hundred NPA insurgents ambush an army truck in La Castellana, Negros Occidental. Four soldiers are killed after a half-hour gun battle.[38]
April 19 – Soldiers discover an NPA training camp in a forest within Angat watershed in Bulacan, where illegal logging operations are reportedly done by rebels. This results in a battle between some 300 rebels and combined forces of Army Scout Rangers and provincial Constabulary command. Two days later, at least 20 guerrillas are killed in San Ildefonso, while clashes reach the adjacent town of Doña Remedios Trinidad.[39]
April 20:
About 100 NPA rebels aboard three vehicles overrun an army detachment in Sagay, Negros Occidental. The rebels allegedly fire at outnumbered soldiers despite their surrender, even hitting some of visiting family members. Four civilians, 6 soldiers, and 5 rebels are killed.[39]
An army sergeant is killed when a 6-vehicle military convoy is ambushed by 20 NPA rebels in Hinabangan, Samar, while on their way to a briefing at a Catbalogan headquarters.[39]
Early July – Fighting in the vicinity of the breeding camp of the Philippine eagle on Mount Talomo in Davao City within weeks kills 40 NPA insurgents and 15 soldiers, and later forces the entire staff of the Philippine Eagle Conservation Program to evacuate along with twelve captive eagles.[40]
August 27 – NPA rebels raid radio station DXRA in Davao City, with four of the personnel fatally shot inside,[26][41][42] along with five civilian guests, in the city's worst attack against the journalists.[42] Another radio announcer is injured in a following stampede.[41][a]
Late August – September 1 – Scattered fighting in three provinces leaves 39 NPA insurgents, 9 soldiers, and two civilians dead. The casualties include 28 guerrillas in military offensives in Pangasinan on September 1; as well as two scout rangers when troops attack a rebel camp in Davao City.[37]
September 2 – Some 200 NPA guerrillas attack a 28-man army patrol in Quezon, killing 21 and wounding five.[37]
October – The NPA kills three individuals, including a serviceman and a retiree—both Americans.[35]
"Olympia" is launched in Metro Manila and Rizal to arrest suspected infiltrators. Similar operations were conducted in the northern Luzon and Eastern Visayas.[9]
March – Leaders of the CPP are arrested in Metro Manila, including Romulo Kintanar, head of the NPA General Command; Rafael Baylosis, alleged CPP secretary general; and Benjamin de Vera, an alleged Executive Committee member.[9][44]
March 9 – A village in Sanchez-Mira, Cagayan, is raided by 200 NPA rebels who burned an Iglesia ni Cristo chapel; two civilians are killed in a crossfire. Pursuit operations by the military in the town and in nearby Aparri end on March 14 with 16 rebels killed. Two hostages are executed.[45]
March 10–11 – An offensive by some 2,500 army troops against 500 NPA militiamen kills 32 insurgents in Concepcion, Misamis Occidental.[45]
March 12 – Three NPA guerillas are hacked to death by troops in Bukidnon.[45]
March 12–13 – Twelve NPA guerillas are killed in an air attack on a rebel training camp in Cotabato.[45]
June 1 – NPA's Melito Glor command, led by Gregorio Rosal and Leopoldo Mabilangan,[46] raids a Magnolia Chicken hatchery of the San Miguel Corporation in Tiaong, Quezon,[9] and kidnap a security guard, which will be released later that day.[47] At the same time, it seizes four Army lieutenants and a Constabulary sergeant,[9][46] aboard a car on their way to Manila, at a roadblock.[47] The five will be held hostage until being freed in Mount Banahaw on August 14[9][46] following series of negotiations.[47]
June 5 – Communist rebels ambush government troops, who are pursuing the former that had stole vehicles from sugar plantations in Tayap village the previous day, on Negros. A four-hour gun battle leaves 14 soldiers dead and two others wounded; a militiaman is believed to be abducted by the rebels.[47]
August 30 – Seventy complaints of human rights violations are filed by the military against the CPP–NPA–NDF before the Commission on Human Rights. Among the cases filed are murder, kidnapping, serious illegal detention, robbery and frustrated murder, which have been occurred in parts of Luzon and Northern Mindanao. These are in addition to 117 cases that have been filed in various courts nationwide.[46]
October 10 – The Philippine Constabulary (PC) exhumes two bodies in Santa Cruz, Laguna, believed to be of Modesto Gammara, president of a local jeepney association, and of his worker Rene Gallente. The two, according to Gammara's father, an NPA member who surrendered to the PC prior to the exhumation, have been captured and executed in February due to complaints of embezzlement. The NPA denies their involvement in their deaths.[48]
October 15 – A bronze statue of U.S. Gen Douglas MacArthur in Palo, Leyte, is blown up, tearing off its legs. It is speculated that communist guerillas are primary suspects, although no group claims credit for the explosion.[43]
November 1 – The CPP Executive Committee orders the OPML stopped and all cases reviewed. In December, 55 individuals are released; however at the end, 66 NPA members are killed. "Olympia" and other anti-DPA campaigns are likewise ordered stopped, all due to abuses.[9] Eventually, the leadership gives disciplinary action only to seven officers involved in the OPML.[49]
January 16 – An Australian gold-processing plant in Bunawan, Agusan del Sur, is attacked by about 40 NPA rebels. The mine is looted and set aflame; five people are dead and dozen are wounded. For the next two weeks, gunfights involving villagers and the military leave six additional deaths.[12]
February – A Filipino businessman who has been supporting U.S. military bases is shot dead by the NPA.[35]
April – A planned ambush by an NPA team at Clark Air Base is foiled by a U.S. military security patrol while the former is laying landmines in a road.[35]
April – Eighteen explosive devices are detonated by NPA rebels at a U.S. military communications facility in Mount Cabuyao near Baguio, destroying and damaging two antennas.[35]
April 4 – About 300 mountaineers are stopped by some 350 NPA rebels in Santa Cruz, Davao del Sur, as they have been on expedition on Mount Apo.[50][51][52] Among them, three foreigners and five Filipinos are captured;[50][51] while the rest are detained until April 6.[53] All of the hostages are freed on April 8[51] and 13.[54][53]
May – NPA rebels capture six soldiers after a 7-hour firefight on Mount Diwata in Surigao del Sur. The group is led by a priest, Frank Navarro, one of the long-time rebel chieftains in eastern Mindanao who has been searched by the military. The shelling in the area by June reportedly delays the release.[57]
May – Dozens of skeletal remains are discovered in Mauban, Quezon, and Cavinti, Laguna, after a former NPA guerrilla, who had served as a guard in the OPML, has informed authorities of mass graves.[16]
June 10 – The municipal hall of Marihatag, Surigao del Sur, is attacked by 300 rebels, reportedly led by Navarro; two soldiers and two children are killed.[57]
June 25 – About 70 NPA rebels attack a religious service of the UCCP in its chapel in Digos, Davao del Sur,[35][58][48] resulting in the deaths of up to 40 worshippers[58]—two of them beheaded, as well as ten injuries.[48] It is claimed that two NPA members are also killed.[58][48] The congregation has been organized into an anti-communist religious cult Ituman,[48] whose members compose most of the casualties that also include tribe members.[58] Two days later, an NPA command in the Southern Mindanao region accepts responsibility and expresses apologies in relation to the massacre,[48] while claiming that they have retaliated after some of the rebels were attacked by Ituman members.[58]
May 18 – One of two rifle grenades fired at the U.S. Information Service Thomas Jefferson Cultural Center in Makati explodes.[35]
May 24 – The Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) announces the start of the "sustained partisan warfare" in Manila in line with their sixth anniversary. This follows the previous day's ambush of Constabulary Col. Reynaldo Dino in Caloocan where Dino and four other individuals are killed.[48]
May 29 – Fumio Mizuno, a training director of a Japanese private organization helping rural farmers in Negros Occidental, is kidnapped by guerrillas in Bacolod.[48][60] It is apparently in an effort to discourage Japanese aid. Mizuno is released on August 2.[48]
June 5 – Retired Col. Laudemar Kahulugan, security chief of Purefoods, Inc. in Quezon City, is shot while on his way to work, in an apparent "sparrow" killing. Kahulugan have been a Constabulary chief in Angeles and Davao cities.[48]
June 13 – Three NPA guerrillas abduct Timothy Swanson, a Peace Corps volunteer from Wyoming, in his residence in Silay, Negros Occidental.[48][60] American officials would learn of the incident at the time of the withdrawal of the volunteers.[60][35] Swanson is likewise released on August 2.[48]
June 27 – The government of United States decides to suspend the 29-year-old Peace Corps program and to recall 261 volunteers following reported threats from the guerrillas.[35][60] At that time, ten of its citizens have been killed in NPA attacks since October 1987.[61]
July – In another attack at the U.S. Cultural Center in Davao City, four NPA members aboard a jeep fire at the building.[35]
July 17 – Guerrillas kidnap two army soldiers in Negros Occidental. They are later released along with Swanson in Silay.[61]
September – In the first NPA bombing of the Voice of America (VOA) transmitter site in Tarlac, an antenna base is destroyed.[35]
October – An American national is apparently kidnapped by the NPA while travelling in Cagayan.[35]
Government reports the arrest of 80 middle and high-ranking members of the CPP–NPA, among them members of the CPP General Command and its chief, Romulo Kintanar.[62]
Early that year, a two-day battle occurs in Surigao del Sur, as NPA holds a hilltop military barracks for days.[63]
January 30–31 – In NPA's second attempt to bomb a VOA facility in Tinang, Tarlac, firefights with the police ensue, first within a half-hour when 50 guerrillas fire at the police barracks; and later overnight as the saboteurs set up bombs at the VOA transmitter site. NPA members withdraw at the early morning of the following day; fifteen explosive devices are subsequently defused by the police.[35][62][64]
The CPP leadership under Jose Maria Sison launches the Second Great Rectification Movement promoting a hardline response to the collapse of communism in eastern Europe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
During "The Second Rectification Movement", allegations that the party leaders are supporting insurrection lead to the breakup of the CPP into the reaffirmist and rejectionist factions—the latter a breakaway.[49]
The CPP Central Committee issues a document condemning Ahos for various violations; and recognizes mistakes in the OPML.[9]
February 15 – Approximately 200 NPA guerrillas,[63][65] led by former Catholic priest Francisco "Frank" Navarro[63][66] and mostly young boys,[63][67] ambush a military convoy carrying a company of about 100 army troops in Marihatag, Surigao del Sur.[63][66][67] The assault, which lasts almost an hour, leaves 47 soldiers dead, 18 injured and two missing;[63] hence the worst government defeat since 1983.[68] More than 3,000 troops are later deployed by the military for a counterattack,[63] which would cause evacuations in the Higaonon community of the province and in Agusan del Sur.[65]
February 16:
President Aquino, speaking at graduation ceremonies at the Philippine Military Academy, claims the government has defeated the NPA.[63][66]Armed Forces chief Gen. Lisandro Abadia reports the decrease in size of the NPA, from 26,000 in 1988 to about 15,000.[66]
Eleven communist rebels are killed in two separate clashes with the military in Kalinga-Apayao and Isabela.[66]
April 11 – About 50 NPA guerrillas ambush a routine military patrol, returning to its camp, in Sagada, Mountain Province, leading to a battle that lasts for about six hours. At least 21 rebels and 19 soldiers troops are killed; at least 20 other government troops are wounded.[68]
24 September – President Fidel V. Ramos signs into law Republic Act 7636, which repealed the Anti-Subversion Law of 1957 that outlawed membership in the Communist Party as part of his efforts to open peace negotiations with the CPP-NPA.
November – The CPP Executive Committee says that since 1988, more than a hundred cadres, including several Central Committee members, have been arrested, and the equipment containing sensitive information about the party have been seized.[49]
May 14 and 21 – Heavily armed NPA rebels attack a village in Makilala, Cotabato, but are repulsed by army and militia troopers from nearby. Exactly a week later, another raid is conducted, killing an army soldier.[69]
30 October – The NPA raided the police station of Rodriguez, Rizal, ransacking the armory, killing one police officer, and abducting Rene Francisco, the police chief. He was later released on December 5 in Tanay, Rizal.[70]
February 15 – Odilon Mallari, lawyer and commentator at Roman Catholic-run DXCP in General Santos, is killed by two NPA liquidation squad members who would later be arrested.[26][71]
March – The Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law, setting a framework to address human rights violations related to insurgency, is agreed by the national government and the then-exiled NDF. Amidst the periodic peace talks, the administration of Joseph Estrada (presidential term begins at mid-year) will enter talks on its implementation in late part of that year.[71]
Early May – The car of Surigao del Sur governor Primo Murillo is reportedly fired by NPA assailants, wounding members of his staff.[71]
July – A police patrol in Northern Samar is attacked by about 40 NPA members, killing two policemen and an army officer.[71]
August – A military platoon is ambushed by NPA rebels, cooperating with tribal leaders, in the Bontoc, Mountain Province, wherein two soldiers are killed. The incident took place amid calls for the government's denial of mining company applications in the area.[71]
September – A group of 25 NPA insurgents is attacked by a military unit in Samar, killing five of them.[71]
Amado Payot (Kumander Benzar), alleged head of the group responsible in the 1989 massacre of worshippers in Davao del Sur, is captured in Cotabato. He is later detained in Davao City for various charges until being freed on bail in March 1999; but never appears in a trial.[72]
February 17 – NPA rebels adbuct Brig. Gen. Victor Obillo, who would be the highest-ranking military officer to be captured, and Capt. Eduardo Montealto in Davao City. After a massive rescue mission and an intercession, the captives are freed on April 16.[72]
August 2 – A member of the CPP's Southern Mindanao Regional Party Committee, an NPA medic, and two civilians who have given them a ride to Compostela, Compostela Valley, are allegedly summarily executed by army soldiers.[72]
November 2 – Leoncio Pitao (Ka Parago), custodian of Obillo and Montealto, is arrested in his residence in Davao City.[72]
From January 15 to February 5, skeletal remains of at least a hundred individuals, mostly NPA rebels, were exhumed by government authorities from various mass graves in Brgy. Taglimao, Cagayan de Oro. They were believed to be victims of a purge by the NPA in the mid-1980s, known as Operation Zombie. Military authorities estimated that more than 4,000 people were killed, in which only 15 were actually "deep penetration agents" (DPAs), the main target. Since 1999, the remains of at least 416 of them had been recovered in the NPA "killing fields" in the said village.[73][74] Some former NPA guerillas confessed that the mass killings, particularly of at least 60 rebels in 1986, were allegedly carried out on orders of CPP founding chairman Jose Maria Sison.[75]
February 5 – Suspected communists assassinated a village chief and two civilians in Naga, then part of Zamboanga del Sur.[76]
March 2 – About 40 NPA rebels attacked an army detachment in Balilihan, Bohol but immediately withdrew. They later ambushed a truckload of soldiers and militiamen, who had sent to reinforce the detachment, along the way in Catigbian, killing at least 5 soldiers and their officer, as well as 4 militiamen.[77]
May 9 – Combined forces of the Army's 1st Infantry Battalion's Task Force Banahaw and the regional police mobile group encountered a band of about 50 NPA fighters in Paete, Laguna; 8 suspected rebels were killed.[79]
June 15 – Seven soldiers and a militiaman were killed in an ambush by the NPA in Maslog, Eastern Samar.[80]
June 28 – NPA insurgents ambushed a military medical mission in Jones, Isabela, killing an Army colonel and 12 of his troops in their worst attack within a decade.[81]
July – government forces discovered a mass grave in Baybay, Leyte containing the skeletal remains of more than 10 suspected victims of a rebel purge in the early 1980s.[82]
July 3 – A NPA commander identified as Ka Alpha was killed, and three policemen and a civilian were wounded, in a clash in Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro.[81]
July 4 – 60 suspected NPA rebels ambushed a police team tasked to investigate the killing of a barangay chairman a day prior, in a mountain village in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro, killing 8 of them and wounding five others.[81]
September 30 – A military group returning from a three-day civic action, was ambushed by the NPA in Paquibato District, Davao City; at least 4 from the group were killed, as well as 5 civilians.[83]
November 18 – About 80 NPA rebels attacked a police station in Caramoan, Camarines Sur, later repelled by the policemen; at least 6 guerrillas, a policeman, and a militiaman, were killed.[84]
December 3 – A police chief of Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro was assassinated by four unidentified men, believed to be NPA rebels. It was said that it was in retaliation to the death of a certain Ka Joel, leader of a three-man NPA group assigned the town, in an encounter in August.[85]
November 17 – NPA rebels ambushed 25 soldiers of an Army Special Forces platoon on board a dump truck that had hit a landmine in Cateel, Davao Oriental, killing 18 of them; the remaining soldiers returned fire in the ensuing firefight that killed 10 rebels.[86]
Early April – A police contingent is waylaid by NPA guerrillas in Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, killing two policemen.[87]
April 9 – An injured suspected NPA rebel is captured after a clash between some 30 rebels and government troops in Tapaz, Capiz.[87]
April 13 – About 30 suspected NPA rebels forcibly enter a construction site in Calbayog, Samar, and burn three heavy equipment.[88]
April 15 – A military offensive on an NPA camp in Davao City kills six rebels and injures a militiaman and two of the seven who are captured.[87]
April 16 – Suspected NPA guerrillas ambush a police contingent in Maasim, Sarangani, injuring three police officers.[87]
On 30 June, one soldier and 15 militants were injured after a skirmish in Nueva Era, Ilocos Norte. Documents and pamphlets were seized from rebel bunkers.[89]
September 27 – About 50 rebels raid a police station in Lopez, Quezon, killing a police chief and an officer, and wounding two others.[90]
September 30 – A police station in San Rafael, Bulacan, is strafed by NPA rebels who, at the same time, injure three soldiers in a firefight in a nearby town.[90]
Early October – The National Bureau of Investigation announces the arrest of a suspected NPA fund raiser and two cadres somewhere in Metro Manila "less than [a week prior]". Their base of operations is in Quezon.[90]
February 5 – The CPP Executive Committee issues a statement saying that among those with the biggest accountability in the purge in the 1980s are officials who have broke away from the party, especially in 1992 during the "Second Rectification Movement," naming only five of them.[49]
On 19 April, 5 soldiers were killed and 9 wounded in a gun fight with NPA rebels outside Ligao, Albay.[91]
June 22:
NPA rebels assassinate municipal mayor Guerrero Zaragoza outside a cockpit in Tayug, Pangasinan. A bystander is also killed.[13]
In the second NPA raid in Quinapondan, Eastern Samar, involving about 150 rebels,[92] the attack at the police station by 20 of them is repulsed by two of three policemen in the area, one of them is a police chief who is injured.[13]
June 26 – A patrol base of a company of the 52nd Infantry Battalion in Oras, Eastern Samar, is attacked by 200 communist guerrillas; and is later burned after a 2-hour gun battle. Among the 34 who man the detachment, 11 militiamen and 5 army soldiers are killed along with a civilian, in what will reportedly be the largest NPA raid since the 1989 Digos incident.[92]
July 14 – NPA rebels ambush a group of soldiers in Bontoc, Mountain Province, killing eight from the latter. On August 5, miliary operations in two villages begin, where seven rebels are killed, including two in an aerial attack on August 15.[93]
August 6 – A junior army officer and two of 3 soldiers, acting as his security escorts, are killed in Canlaon, Negros Oriental, while they, on board a service vehicle of the city government, are about to deliver military supplies in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental. An NPA command claims responsibility in the ambush.[93]
March 26 – A PNOC geothermal plant in Leyte is raided by an NPA unit which would kill three PNOC employees and two policemen in subsequent ambush.[94]
March 28 – An army patrol base in Davao City is raided by more than a hundred guerillas, which would retreat later following a four-hour gunbattle as another yet outnumbered battalion of soldiers foil the attack. Two members of the Civilian Active Auxiliary are wounded.[94]
On 29 September, left-wing party Bayan Muna, accused by security forces of being an NPA front, announced that 53 of its members had been killed by alleged government hired gunmen between 2001 and 2005. Leftist labor movement Kilusan Mayo Uno seconded the accusations, claiming that 33 of its activists were killed in 2005. Satur Ocampo described the killings as "political repression masquerading as counter-insurgency and antiterrorism operations". A PNP official said that the killings would be fully investigated, and following an official enquiry, at least two soldiers were charged with murder.[citation needed]
October 9 – Five soldiers and three civilians are killed in an NPA land mine attack in Misamis Occidental.[95]
November 19 – Two army trucks, carrying 60 soldiers whio are returning from combat operations, are attacked by 30–40 NPA rebels in Calinog, Iloilo, wherein land mines blow up a truck and rebels fired at them. After an hour-long gun battle, nine soldiers are killed and 20 are injured.[95]
November 19–20 – In Quezon, an NPA unit attack Globe cellular towers in Lucban and Sampaloc. The next day, a gun battle with a six-man mobile patrol team along Maharlika Highway in Tiaong kills a policeman and injures three. The NPA claims that some guerrillas are wounded.[95]
December 16 – A land mine detonated by suspected communist insurgents in Tulunan, Cotabato, kills three soldiers in a humanitarian mission, and injures at least 11 others.[96]
May 18 – A civilian was killed in a military encounter against NPA rebels in Bulan, Sorsogon.[97]
June 23 – A rebel ambush in Laguna resulted in the injury of a soldier.[citation needed]
June 26 – An NPA-planted landmine hit a military minivan in Camarines Sur, wounding a soldier.[citation needed]
July 16 – A soldier and a policeman were killed in a gunfight in Occidental Mindoro. On the same day, the NPA allegedly assassinated an army officer in Bulacan.[citation needed]
July 21 – The NPA raided a police station in Isabela, stealing four rifles and a number of communication sets.[citation needed]
July 22 – NPA rebels attacked a ferry terminal and a police station in Matnog, Sorsogon.[98]
July 24:
NPA rebels, had purportedly failed in collecting "revolutionary taxes" from owners of public vehicles, detonated two landmines on a highway in Tago, Surigao del Sur, hitting a jeepney wherein five of its passengers were seriously injured, along with ten pedestrians.[97][98]
NPA taken hostage some fifty civilians in San Francisco, Agusan del Sur, as they gathered them in a checkpoint set up by some hundred rebels led by George Madlos (Ka Oris). Some were released later that day.[98]
August 8 – An NPA attack caused the injury of five soldiers who were at the time packing relief supplies for evacuees from the eruption of Mayon Volcano. In a separate incident, the AFP killed five rebels and lost one soldier during clashes with the NPA.[citation needed]
In May, the NPA imposed a countrywide campaign tax on politicians willing to participate in the midterm elections. According to a PNP source, the victorious candidate of the Albay governor's race paid the NPA a total of $800,000. Former governor Fernando Gonzales accused the NPA of denying him entry into the southern regions of the province. The rebels also intensified their attacks before the election, resulting in the deaths of 18 people.[citation needed]
May 28 – Eight soldiers were wounded as NPA rebels ambushed a military convoy in Aurora.[99]
On 7 June, the NPA engaged AFP troops in Monkayo, Compostela Valley. Both sides issued conflicting reports concerning incident: a government spokesman announced the death of nine rebels and four soldiers, while the NPA denied claimed to have killed 15 soldiers and suffering one fatality.[100]
On 15 June, the AFP clashed with insurgents in Compostela Valley. Nine militants and four soldiers were killed during the battle.[citation needed]
On 16 June, NPA fighters killed four policemen in Catanduanes. Weapons were removed from the killed officers.[citation needed]
On 17 June, a squad of militants detonated three bombs at a Globe Telecom tower in Iloilo after disarming the security guards on the site.[citation needed]
On 24 June, several dozen guerrillas carried out a raid on the town hall of Dangcagan, Bukidnon. One police officer was killed as the rebels fled with eight stolen weapons.[citation needed]
On 29 June, a band of militants launched an offensive on an AFP patrol base in Agusan del Norte. Eight militants and seven AFP soldiers were killed, and the rebels abducted three AFP personnel.[citation needed]
On 26 October, NPA fighters masquerading as Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency officer raid the Quezon Provincial Jail to free seven imprisoned fighters.[101][102] In response to the jailbreak, high-risk NPA fighters were immediately transferred to other secure prisons.[103]
On 20 May, a team from the Philippine National Police Special Action Force were aboard their vehicle when suspected NPA rebels detonated a land mine at San Jose village in Antipolo, Rizal at around 6 am.[106]
On 13 July, the NPA executed Mateo Biong Jr., a drug cartel leader and former mayor of Giporlos, Eastern Samar. Biong was accused of killing rival drug dealers, illegal logging and mining, and misuse of public funds.[citation needed]
On 14 December, ten soldiers were killed and two injured after a guerrilla ambush in Las Navas, Northern Samar. The rebels took 11 rifles from the killed soldiers.[citation needed]
On 15 December, two civilians were killed, one of them a 15-year-old boy and the other a former chairman of Barangay Poponton, in an ambush on a pump boat along Hinaga River in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Five soldiers and a civilian were reported missing as a result of the ambush carried out with automatic weapons at around 5 pm that left the civilian vessel heavily damaged. The attack was believed to have been carried out by an undetermined number of NPA rebels who were said to be hiding along the forested area of the river.[107]
On 26 May, three construction workers are killed and another wounded in an attack staged by leftist rebels in the ore-rich town of Tampakan, South Cotabato. Ten gunmen, believed to be NPA rebels, ambushed a convoy of five trucks at around 1:30pm with small arms and grenades in the village of Danlag.[108]
On 2 June, the PNP arrested rebel explosive expert Ryan Sison in Dalahican village, Lucena, Quezon, confiscating IED components.[citation needed]
On 4 July, a closure agreement between the CPLA and the Government of the Philippines was signed at Rizal Hall in Malacañang Palace. The agreement called for the disarmament of the group, the reintegration of the militants into mainstream society and the conversion of the militant group into a socio-economic organization.[109]
On 26 July, a government militiaman was killed and one wounded in Barangay Gumitan, Marilog district, Davao City.[citation needed]
On 3 October, a band of 200 NPA fighters set fire to equipment belonging to mining corporations in the villages of Cagdianao and Taganito, in Claver, Surigao del Norte.[110]
On 16 January, six insurgents were killed during a clash in a Japanese banana plantation in Compostela Valley.[111]
On 9 April, rebels carried out a raid on the police station of Tigbao, Zamboanga del Sur, stealing weapons and taking hostage a policeman, who was later released.[112]
On 19 April, an IED detonated by the NPA killed three and injured two soldiers in New Upian, Barangay Marilog, Marilog district, Davao City.[113]
On 23 April, militants stole several high-powered assault rifles from a security agency in Butuan, Agusan del Norte, after posing as National Bureau of Investigation agents.[112]
On 25 April, an NPA attack resulted in the deaths of 11 soldiers and 2 civilians in Ifugao.[112]
On 29 April, militants killed four soldiers and a civilian PDT member in Labo, Camarines Norte, and took their weapons.[112]
On 7 May, the NPA claimed to have carried out an ambush in Trento, Agusan del Sur, and Monkayo, Compostela Valley, killing three soldiers, and wounding four. In a second incident, two soldiers were wounded in the vicinity of the Bahayan river, Trento. The AFP responded by bombing Trento, displacing 80 families.[114]
January 27 – Twenty suspected NPA guerrillas ambushed a truck, with policemen and village officials among those aboard, in La Castellana, Negros Occidental; nine people, including a policeman and three village officials, were killed.[115][116]
On 28 February, authorities detained the NPA's Central Visayas commander Ruben Nabas along with his secretary. On the same day, two NPA members surrendered to the authorities of Barangay Del Pilar, Cabadbaran, Agusan del Norte.[117]
On 7 May, two soldiers were killed while escorting election officials in Kalinga.[118]
On 11 May, rebels of the communist New People's Army allegedly ambushed the convoy of Kadingilan, Bukidnon mayor Joelito Jacosalem Talaid, wounding him and killing four of his bodyguards. A radio report stated the mayor had been shot in the leg.[119] Talaid was traveling through Barangay Kibogtok when he and his bodyguards were stopped by up to 10 armed men. Talaid was also allegedly forced to hand over 7 million Philippine pesos worth of cash to the suspects.[120]
On 20 May, NPA militants raided the office of a security agency in Orange Valley village, Tagum, Davao del Norte, stealing firearms, ammunition and bulletproof vests. They also detonated an IED on a national highway in Barangay Pandapan, Tagum, injuring five soldiers and a civilian.[121]
On 21 August, one soldier was killed and three were wounded in a skirmish in Purok, Barangay Balagan in San Mariano, Isabela. Security forces seized two IEDs and propaganda materials.[123]
On 30 August, Philippine Air Force helicopters bombed rebel positions in the northern area of Sagada, Mountain Province, following a clash that took place a day earlier during which two policemen were wounded.[124]
On 5 December, NPA officer Rene Rabulan Briones was killed in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur, during a shootout with the Philippine military.[125]
On 14 December, the NPA raided a police station in Kibawe, Bukidnon. A police officer was killed, and the insurgents stole 13 firearms before escaping in four cars.[126][127]
On 22 March, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Chairman Benito Tiamzon, his wife Wilma Tiamzon (secretary general of the NPA) and five others were arrested in Barangay Zaragosa, Aloguinsan, Cebu. The Tiamzons had a standing warrant of arrest orders for crimes against humanity, including charges of murder, multiple murder and frustrated murder.[129][130]
On 27 March, Andrea Rosal, daughter of deceased former NPA spokesman "Ka Roger" Rosal, was arrested in Caloocan.[131]
Between 7–10 April, the NPA set fire to vehicles and heavy equipment belonging to mining companies in Masara village in Maco and Pantukan, Compostela Valley, after alleged environmental damage caused by the mining companies.[132]
20 May – five communist militants were killed in two separate encounters in President Roxas, Cotabato and Tayabas, Quezon. One soldier was wounded. Government forces seized weaponry, radios, ammunition and propaganda materials.[134]
23 May – at least five NPA rebels were killed and two captured in a firefight in Barangay Balocawe, Matnog, Sorsogon.[135]
16 July – an NDF spokesman announced that the NPA had suffered 14 fatalities following simultaneous attacks against private armies in Santa Irene, Prosperidad, Barangay Bitan-agan, San Francisco, Agusan del Sur. A civilian and a private army commander were also killed in the incident, and NDF claimed to have seized a number of weapons during the raids.[137]
31 July – One soldier and an unspecified number of rebels were killed in a firefight in Tapaz, Capiz.[138]
6 August – The AFP arrested top militant commander Eduardo Almores Esteban in Landheights subdivision in Barangay Buntala, Jaro, Iloilo City.[139]
4 September – Five NPA fighters died in an encounter with an army patrol in Lacub, Abra.[140]
5 November – The AFP engaged suspected NPA insurgents, killing three fighters and seizing nine weapons, in Sitio Tubak, Barangay Nomol, Maasim, Sarangani.[142]
23 November – Three civilians were injured in an NPA attack on an army patrol post in Sitio Guiwanon, Barangay Danao, San Jacinto, Masbate.[143]
25 November – The PNP detained rebel commander Billy Morado along with another insurgent in Caloocan.[144]
5 December – a security force patrol clashed with guerrillas in Sitio Upper Balantang, Barangay Cabuyuan, Mabini, Compostela Valley, killing five rebels.[145]
17 December – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group arrested NPA commander Jordan Reyes Donillo at a checkpoint located in Barangay Magnaga, Pantukan, Compostela Valley. On the same day, the NPA released a statement claiming to have killed 40 government loyalists, including policemen, soldiers and militia, in the course of 28 operations in December.[146]
16 January – Three NPA officers surrendered to authorities in Capiz, the rebels belonged to the Tugalbong and Baloy platoons of the NPA.[150]
23 January – Government troops clashed with NPA militants in Sitio Brazil, Mat-i, Surigao City and Imbayao, Malaybalay, Bukidnon. No casualties were reported, and the Philippine Army seized two rifles and a grenade launcher in the former encounter.[151]
28 January – NPA rebels killed a soldier of the 69th Infantry Battalion in an ambush in the Paquibato district, Davao City.[152]
2 February – Rebels executed Rufino Dumayas, a former NPA commander, after accusing him of revealing the identities of several rebels and cooperating with security forces.[153]
5 February – An army officer was killed by communist guerrillas in Las Navas, Northern Samar. Two rebels were later arrested.[154]
6 February – Security forces overpowered a group of NPA rebels, forcing them to flee, in Barangay Rojales, Carmen, Agusan del Norte. Numerous weapons, explosives and communication equipment were seized, and one rebel was arrested.[155]
8 February – Authorities arrested Raunil Mortejo, Reboy Gandinao and Jasmin Badilla, three members of NPA's Eastern Mindanao Command, in Barangay Sinaragan, Matanao, Davao del Sur, and in Barangay Lumintao, Quezon, Bukidnon.[156]
9 February – Security forces uncovered NPA encampments in Sitio Tig-atay, Barangay Igpaho, Tubungan, Iloilo, and Sitio Tigmarabas, Barangay Ongyod, Miag-ao, Iloilo. The camps had the capacity to accommodate 120 people.[157]
14 March – A landmine detonation killed 3 soldiers and wounded five others, the incident occurred in Los Arcos, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur.[158]
1 April – Two soldiers and a civilian were killed in an NPA ambush in Sityo Ban-as, Barangay Mahayag, San Miguel, Surigao del Sur, seven people were also wounded.[159]
2 June – Authorities detained the NPA's top commander Adelberto Silva in Bacoor, Cavite south of Manila, grenades and documentation were also recovered during the operation.[160]
30 December – Six militants were killed in Negros Oriental in separate encounters with government forces, while 24 arrested during a series of anti-rebels raids including former Guihulngan Mayor Cesar Macalua, who was allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade.[177]
November 26 – CPP-NPA Leader Jaime "Ka Diego" Padilla was captured and arrested in San Juan, Metro Manila after undergoing an executive checkup in Cardinal Santos Medical Center. Authorities said that he was carrying P4.4 million in revolutionary tax he collected.[178]
January 6 – A military officer of the 72nd Division Reconnaissance Group was killed in a shootout with rebels in Abra.[179]
January 12 – Government employee Pio Lingatong was assassinated by militants in Barangay Aloja, Batuan, Bohol.[180]
January 17 – 3 soldiers were killed and 1 were wounded in an ambush in Legazpi City, Albay, the soldiers were transporting intel when they were attacked.[181]
January 20 – Several militants killed 2 kidnapped village officials in Masbate, 1 being a councilman and another being a watchman.[182]
January 22 – 1 soldier was killed in a shootout with rebels in Lamag village, Quirino, Ilocos Sur.[183]
January 28 – Shots were fired at the Sison police station in Surigao del Norte, 2 hours later a group of rebels in the same area ambushed a patrol, a military officer sustained head injuries.[184]
February 9 – A military lieutenant was killed along with 2 rebels during intense clashes in Quezon.[190]
February 17 – 2 former mayors and 2 others were assassinated during a rebel ambush in Barangay Ignacio B. Jurado, Lasam, Cagayan. NPA propaganda was found near the scene and there were no less than 6 attackers.[191]
February 19 – A Special Action Force member with the Philippine National Police was wounded in a shootout with rebels in Northern Samar.[193]
February 22 – 4 Special Action Force troopers and 2 civilians were wounded by a rebel IED on a highway in Barangay Putiao, Pilar, Sorsogon, the rebels also engaged in a brief firefight with the police before retreating.[194]
February 28 – Village chief Julie Catamin was killed during a drive-by in Barangay Roosevelt, Tapaz, Capiz.[196][197]
March 3 – Rebels detonated a landmine near a police car in Janiuay, Iloilo. Nobody was injured.[198]
June 8 – Keith Absalon and his brother Nolven were killed in a Masbate City blast, after 24 NPA rebels detonated landmines and explosives. Later, one rebel was arrested.[199]
August 16 – An encounter between government forces and the NPA in Dolores, Eastern Samar resulted to deaths of at least 16 rebels.[200]
October 30 – NPA Leader Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos was slain after a clash with military troops in Impasugong, Bukidnon.[201]
December 17 – Four suspected NPA members died in an encounter between combined forces of the 2nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army's 903rd Infantry Brigade and the police, and at least 20 suspected rebels, at the boundary of Esperanza and Placer in Masbate.[202]
In 2021, 142 suspected NPA members were neutralized, according to a Philippine Army report: 71 surrendered, 49 died in encounters, 22 were arrested. Among those neutralized were 12 high-ranking leaders.[203]
September 6 – The son and wife of Ka Oris Madlos' Vincent Isagani Madlos and Angie Polandres Salinas were killed after an encounter with members of the 8th Infantry Battalion under the 403rd Infantry Brigade in Barangay Kapitan Bayong, Bukidnon.[214]
October 6–19 – Series of encounters between troops of the 94th Infantry Battalion (94IB) of the Philippine Army (PA) and NPA rebels began on October 6 in Barangay Carabalan, Himamaylan, Negros Occidental. Two soldiers were killed on October 8;[216] Romeo Nanta, commanding officer of the Regional Operational Command of Komiteng Rehiyon-Negros, was also killed on October 10. As a result, more than 3,000 individuals from barangays Carabalan and Cabadiangan were temporarily displaced until October 18.[217] On October 12, the 94IB seized a communist rebels' hideout.[218] On October 19, it was confirmed that encounter sites were cleared by the army.[219]
November 21 – A local NPA guerrilla unit commander in Central Negros was killed in a brief encounter in Guihulngan, Negros Oriental. By that time, three rebels had been killed in series of clashes in the city for the past weeks.[222]
November 23 – Six rebels from the NPA's Eastern Visayas Regional Party Committee, including its leader, were killed in an encounter with Army troopers in Las Navas, Northern Samar.[212][223][224]
November 24
Six NPA rebels belonging to a sub-regional command, including a ranking leader and his wife, were killed in an encounter with soldiers of the Army's 7th Infantry Battalion in Bagumbayan, Sultan Kudarat.[223][225]
February 4–5 – Two separate clashes between government forces and NPA rebels occurred in a village in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental. Following the second encounter, the bodies of three rebels and their weapons were recovered.[230]
February 9 – Five rebels were killed in a dawn encounter between soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, who were conducting a security patrol, and some 20 NPA members in Cawayan, Masbate; four more were arrested.[231]
February 20 – Two soldiers of the 31st IB of the Philippine Army, part of the augmentation force in the search operations for victims of a plane crash on Mayon volcano, were shot dead by three NPAs in Camalig, Albay.[233]
March 1 – Three separate clashes between NPA guerrillas and the 94th IB in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental, in one of the sites of similar incidents in 2022, killed four suspected NPA members and injured a soldier.[234][235]
Late March – Series of clashes between the military and NPA rebels occurred in Masbate. On March 20, a soldier was killed in a five-minute encounter in Cawayan;[238][240] on March 22, encounters following bomb explosions occurred in Placer and Dimasalang.[241]
March 27 and 30 – Series of operations by the Army occurred in a village in Bayugan, Agusan del Sur. On March 27, two ranking NPA leaders in Caraga were killed. Three days later, a secretary of two NPA local committees was also killed.[242]
March 31 – Two clashes erupted between troops of the 80th IB of the 2nd Infantry Division and around 30 NPA rebels in the vicinity of Wawa Dam, Rizal. A soldier was killed and another two were wounded while the casualties on the rebel side were undetermined.[243][244]
April 20 – An encounter between the NPA and government troops occurred in Negros Occidental, beginning in Isabela and continued at the boundary with Binalbagan,[245] the municipality wherein Rogelio Posadas, secretary of the CPP-NPA regional committee in Central Visayas, died.[246] In the same province, an alleged NPA member was killed in another encounter in Escalante.[247]
April 30 – The Army's 803rd Infantry Battalion engaged around 40 NPA members in a pre-dawn armed encounter in an upland village in Bobon, Northern Samar, with at least seven suspected rebels killed. A wounded medical officer of the rebels later surrendered in Catarman.[249]
May 1 – An encounter between troops of the 80th Infantry Battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division and approximately 20 NPA rebels occurred in Brgy. Puray, Rodriguez, Rizal. The 30-minute firefight resulted in the withdrawal of the rebels. Casualties on rebel side were undetermined; war materiel were recovered.[250]
May 3 – An alleged NPA rebel was killed in an encounter in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.[251]
May 20–21 – The Army's 62nd Infantry Battalion launched combat operations in a village in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental on May 20, with three separate morning encounters with a number of NPA rebels, five of them were killed.[252][253] Tracking down the retreating rebels at Guihulngan, Negros Oriental the following day, they engaged in another firefight with at least eight NPA rebels, four more were killed.[252][254]
May 28 – Four NPA rebels were killed in a military encounter in Catarman, Northern Samar.[255]
May 30 - Rebel forces ambush a Philippines Army convoy in Barangay Malisbong, Sablayan. None are killed. 11 individuals were charged for terrorism in relation to this attack in February 2023.[256]
July 7 – An NPA rebel was killed following a series of clashes with the military in Himamaylan, Negros Occidental.[258]
July 20 – Two NPA rebels, one of them an alleged leader in central Negros, were killed in a clash with the military in Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental.[259]
July 26 – An NPA leader in Northern Mindanao was killed in a military encounter in Gingoog, Misamis Oriental.[260]
August 5–6 – Military encounters occurred at Guihulngan, Negros Oriental and during pursuit operations at Moises Padilla, Negros Occidental the following day with an alleged unidentified NPA rebel killed.[261]
August 19
Four suspected NPA rebels, including its leader, were killed in an encounter with the government troops in San Jacinto, Masbate.[262][263][264]
August 23 – A commanding officer of the CPP–NPA North Central Mindanao Regional Committee was killed in a military encounter in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.[265]
August 24, 26 – A government soldier was killed in a military encounter with the NPA in Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental on August 24. Two days later, another encounter came at the same site as the government troops were conducting pursuit operations, killing an unidentified NPA rebel.[266]
September 7 – Six alleged NPA rebels were killed in a series of military encounters in Bilar, Bohol.[268][269]
September 21 – Five NPA members, along with a civilian, were killed in a clash between the Army 47th Infantry Battalion and an NPA regional committee in Kabankalan, Negros Occidental.[270][271]
November 28 –The government and the CPP-NPA said that they would resume peace talks after a six-year hiatus.[272]
December 17 – Six rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash between the Army and the NPA in Balayan, Batangas.[273]
December 25 – Nine rebels were killed during clashes with the military in Malaybalay, Bukidnon.[274]
January 13 – President Bongbong Marcos announced that the NPA no longer had any active guerrilla fronts in the country.[276]
January 31 - NPA claimed to have killed three 80th IBPA troops.[277]
February 15 - Rebels of the Roselyn Jean Pell Command - Northern Negros Guerrilla Front killed 55-year old Allan Macasling, who 'created fear' for residents of Toboso. They obtained two guns, bullets, two smartphones, and 'various IDs' from the man, whom they accused of land grabbing and counter-revolution.[278][279]
February 21–22 – Three NPA rebels were killed and four soldiers were injured following a series of encounters in Escalante, Negros Occidental. The military later launched an airstrike.[280]
February 23 – According to the Philippine Government, five NPA rebels and a police officer were killed in an encounter between government troops and the NPA in Bilar, Bohol.[281] The CPP disputes this, claiming that there was no military encounter, and that the 5 individuals were captured and then executed by the military.[282]
February 27 - Top NPA leader Aprecia Rosete alias "Bambam" of the CPP-NPA Western Mindanao Regional Party Committee was killed in an encounter with government forces belonging to the 102nd Infantry Brigade in the village of Malagalad, Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur; war material recovered.[283][284]
April 4 - A farmer named Marlon Catacio was shot dead by 62nd IB in a false encounter, according to NPA.[285]
April 11 - Leonardo Panaligan Command, under instruction of NPA Central Negros' People's Revolutionary Court, awarded death penalty to Danny Boy Bartolome due to his alleged spying for the 62nd IB. NPA fighters seized two smartphones from his home. They had previously expelled him from the local area but due to his not complying with this order, executed him.[286]
April 18 - NPA claimed Jose Rapsing Command to have killed two soldiers of the Philippine Army's 96th Infantry Battalion, and 'seriously wounded' two others.[287]
^On the 1987 DXRA attack: Most sources listed at least four killed journalists;[26][42] while the Philippine National Police mentioned three.[26] They were:
Leo Palo, commentator[26][42] and anti-communist crusader[41]
