No end in sight as Philippines communist revolt marks 50th year
Taken on July 30, 2017, guerrillas of the New People’s Army stand in formation in the Sierra Madre mountain range, east of Manila. – AFP file pic, March 27, 2019
POLICE officer 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. “I thought it was my time to die,” said 25-year-old, who instead woke up in a hospital with a cracked pelvis to learn three of her colleagues were dead in the 2018 attack in the central Philippines.
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