Word: mindanao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutineers' disinformation kept the government off balance. Reports trickled in that large areas of Luzon and Mindanao as well as the bustling commercial city of Cebu in the central Philippines had capitulated to the rebels. Rumors flew that Defense Secretary Fidel Ramos and armed forces Chief of Staff Renato de Villa had joined the rebellion. Ramos added to the muddle by saying nothing publicly on the matter for 212 hours. Finally he went on radio to urge: "Do not believe their propaganda. It's not true. We're fighting them. They are the enemy...
Aquino's problems are likely to proliferate. The N.P.A. last week announced that it was including among its targets American businesses on the island of Mindanao. Some Filipinos believe the move is a ploy to cast Aquino as a lackey of U.S. imperialism. Said Opposition Senator Juan Ponce Enrile: "The N.P.A. will say, 'We're only fighting American imperialists. So why is the Philippine government shooting at us?' " The local elections scheduled for Jan. 18 are bound to be violent. For one thing, minor rivalries between small-town politicos could turn into bloody feuds multiplied hundreds of times over across...
Aquino immediately set about personally surveying her domain. Amid threats of imminent coups and assassinations, she visited Davao City on the strife- torn island of Mindanao. By week's end the police were tearing down strike barricades. The moves are proving to be popular, so much so that even Aquino's disaffected Vice President, Salvador Laurel, has begun to soften his criticism of her leadership. Earlier, Laurel admitted there was a tactical alliance between some of his supporters and those of Aquino's archrival, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile. After the President's speech, Laurel said his differences with...
...been too soft on the 18-year-old Communist insurgency, which has intensified since the collapse of a cease-fire agreement last February. The day after the election, ten policemen were killed in an ambush by the Communist New People's Army in Surigao del Sur province on Mindanao. At week's end 38 people were killed in scattered guerrilla attacks around the country, bringing the number of insurgency-related deaths this year to more than 1,000. Said a top-ranking general: "The soldiers are not free to move or do what they think ought to be done...
...vigilantes have proved an effective tool for counterinsurgency alongside the still ill-equipped and poorly paid Philippine armed forces. Nowhere is that clearer than in Davao City, the sprawling city-state in southeastern Mindanao. A year ago Davao City and its 1.4 million people were so firmly in the control of the insurgents that Manila officials called the city a Communist "urban laboratory." But in the past eight months the N.P.A. has fled into the hills, and the city has been transformed into a government stronghold. The main agent of change: the vigilante group Alsa Masa, or Uprising...