U.S. envoy: CPP-NPA won’t be delisted from list of terrorists "Washington has expressed no plan to lift the foreign terrorist tag on the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria. Sison and the group’s armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), owing to their continued terrorist activities in the country."
Peru: Day of Heroism, June 19, 1986 "Seventeen years ago--on June 19, 1986--Peruvian revolutionary prisoners fought back against a vicious land, sea, and air assault by the U.S.-backed Peruvian government. Over 300 revolutionary prisoners lost their lives in heroic resistance at the El Frontón, Lurigancho and Santa Barbara prisons. The following is excerpted from an account prepared in 2001 by the Information Bureau of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, marking the 15th anniversary of what has come to be known as the Day of Heroism."
Criticism upon the peace negotiations Luis Arce Borja criticises the peace talks in Nepal and other countries.
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Philippines: Gains of the agrarian revolution reaped in Samar "The peasant masses are now reaping the benefits of the step-by-step implementation of genuine land reform in guerrilla zones and bases in Samar. In a portion of a guerrilla base composed of vast expanses of rice fields and coconut lands, the peasants have been determinedly and sustainedly advancing the antifeudal struggle at the barrio and interbarrio level."
Bhutanese Maoists "The Bhutanese government has been alerted to a radical communist outfit, similar to the Maoist rebels in Nepal, that recently announced an armed struggle in the Druk kingdom. After its formation in the Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal, the Bhutanese Communist Party (BPC) announced it already has strengthened bases inside Bhutan. They have youth, peasant and student wings that have begun distributing pamphlets and posters even in urban centre like Thimphu, Paro and Ha. The king is not ignorant of these developments. There are reports that he began to chart out strategies to counter the newly formed party and several raids on villages took place recently.
BPC insiders don’t believe the Nepal-Bhutan talks will lead to a solution. “We have already declared our armed struggle and this is what will bring the refugee issue to a decisive end,” a party member said. The people that the Bhutanese government resettled on their lands are already fleeing in fear, he added.
With headquarters at Siliguri in India, the party members are able to move easily across three international borders. The Bhutanese government has sought help from Indian paramilitary forces to fight these freshly-minted Maoists."
India: MCC blasts Bihar police station "Activists of the banned Maoist Communist Centre (MCC) blew up a newly-constructed police station in Bihar's naxalite-affected Rohtas district by triggering dynamite, police said on Sunday.
Over 50 armed MCC activists gheraoed Tillothu police station, about 30 km from Sasaram, and blasted it by triggering a dynamite late Saturday night, police said."
