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December 26, 2025
Just how many New People’s Army (NPA) rebels are there remaining in their jungle hideouts? According to Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. in November 2024, the revolutionary group behind one of the world’s longest communist insurgencies was down to 1,111 members that year, from 2,200 in 2023. The AFP’s intelligence gathering appears to have been so thorough that it was able to arrive at such a specific number. In his