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                    [Title] => NPA declares 1-week ceasefire in typhoon areas
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In time of need, there are no lines that divide soldiers and rebels.

[DatePublished] => 2009-10-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1371238 [AuthorName] => James Mananghaya [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 215066 [Title] => NPA: Abra pols to pay ‘campaign fees’ [Summary] => BANGUED, Abra — So, you want to run for a public office in this province?

Aside from the usual expenses that politicians have to shoulder in the coming elections, aspiring public servants here will have to pay a so-called "permit-to-campaign (PTC) fee" to the New People’s Army (NPA) in exchange for a chance to solicit votes inside rebel-controlled areas.

Diego Wadagan, spokesman of the Abra-based Agustin Begnalen Command, said they will impose the fee in areas where "Red political power has been established."
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 174102 [Title] => Abra gov hits mayors in alleged NPA hit list [Summary] => BANGUED, Abra — Mayors in the province, who claimed being in the New People’s Army’s hit list, only wanted to earn "pogi points" to be given more security personnel, Gov. Vicente Valera said yesterday.

Valera said the mainstream communist movement in the province and the regional NPA command recently denied having issued a statement threatening him and other Abra politicians for supposedly being anti-communists.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 165514 [Title] => Reds also ‘taxing’ OFWs’ kin [Summary] => BAGUIO CITY — Out of desperation, the military said communist guerrillas have expanded their "taxation" scheme by extorting money from families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). [DatePublished] => 2002-06-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804891 [AuthorName] => Artemio Dumlao [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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