Post 9/11
This group was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States in August 2002 and by the European Union in November 2005. The NPA's founder, Jose Maria Sison, lives in the Netherlands in exile. The NPA operates mostly in the rural areas and their targets often include military, police, government informers, alleged criminals.
The Arroyo administration has been negotiating intermittently with delegates of NPA in European countries.
The arrest of a Naxalite guerrilla by Indian security forces suggested links with the NPA, who were said to have traveled to India to teach them how to conduct guerrilla warfare against the army and police.
In March, 2008, AFP chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr., claimed that the New People's Army (NPA) rebels had only around 5,700 members, and that the size of the NPA was decreasing. Esperon said further that the AFP hoped to reduce NPA armed strength by 1,500 in 2008. NPAs fought in 69 of 81 Philippine provinces since 1969. Forty thousand people have died in the conflict.
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