NPA membership down to 780; over 5,000 seek amnesty – gov’t

MANILA, Philippines — The total number of New People’s Army (NPA) members has dropped to around 780, the anti-communist task force said. Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), said this is significantly lower than the NPA’s peak in 1987, when the Maoist guerrillas had