The military arrested the top communist guerrilla leader in the Philippines on Monday, June 1, according to the military. Adelberto Silva, a low-key suspected member of the New People’s Army (NPA), is considered the “highest ranking” leader of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) armed wing, after taking over from arrested party leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon. Police said Silva was arrested at his hideout in the town of Bacoor on Manila’s southern outskirts where he had posed as a businessman. Silva will stand trial for the murder of 15 people who were said to have been killed by the NPA. Their remains were recovered from a mass grave in the central island of Leyte in 1985, the military said.
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