Word: guerrillas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reports were circulating that Taruc the Guerrilla was dead or had left the Philippines on a Soviet submarine, but when I told Arsenio that I would like to interview his notorious cousin, he said he would help. Arsenio knew that the Philippine army was getting the upper hand in its war against the Huks, and he wanted to warn Luis before it was too late...
...President Does Not Budge I had never set eyes on this hated guerrilla chief who, since 1946, had waged civil war against the Philippine Republic...
...Philippine Republic's Public Enemy No. 1 left his jungle hideout and "came down" to Manila last week. After eight years of guerrilla warfare, in which he ordered the murder of thousands and terrorized the young republic in the name of Karl Marx, smirking Luis Taruc came slouching out of the forest and gave himself up. In their mountain fastnesses, his hard-pressed Huk followers were...
...Despite the peculiar circumstances of his surrender, there could be no doubt that Taruc's guerrilla army is in despair. In the Philippines at least, the Communists are now on the run. After interviewing Taruc, General Vargas gave his own estimate that Huk strength in the field has fallen from a high of 10,000 in 1948 to less than 1,500. Huk"sympathizers," some of them starved into despair by the government's ruthless pursuit, others attracted by the government's offer of more land and security, have probably been reduced from around a million...
Thus, in the jungles of Malaya, was one Communist recently rendered "politically reliable" by his own comrades, the British army command in Malaya learned last week. There were other evidences of a widespread purge and toughening of the hard-pressed guerrilla forces. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's firm drive against the Communists has apparently spread discontent and created waverers among the Communists. Over the past few weeks, some 40 suspect jungle fighters have been strangled, buried alive or beaten to death with rifle butts, according to British army sources. After a formal inquiry into the executions...