CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY —- All units of the communist-led New People’s Army (NPA) will stand in formation and raise their weapons on Tuesday, April 27, to honor Lapulapu and thousands who fought the Spanish colonizers in the Battle of Mactan 500 years ago.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said, in a statement, that it has declared April 27 this year as “National Day of Armed Valor” to commemorate the Filipinos’ first resistance against colonizers.
The Duterte administration has tagged the CPP as a terrorist group,
The underground rebel group also drew parallel with Lapulapu and the series of resistance and revolts waged by Filipinos against Spain and American colonizer…
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