"Ultimately, we caught up with this man long wanted by the people and the revolutionary movement, " said Marcel Jacinto, spokesman of the Alex Boncayao Brigade, the armed wing of a break-away Communist rebel faction based in Manila.
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The statement, faxed to news agencies, quoted Laura Melchor, a spokeswoman for the Alex Boncayao Brigade, as saying former Lt . Col . Rolando Abadilla was given " revolutionary justice " for being a chief agent of martial law under Marcos.
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Ramos said the killing Monday of former banker Leonardo Ty and his driver and two other attacks that killed a 5-year-old boy and a police bodyguard " signals a declaration of war " by the Communist assassination squad, Alex Boncayao Brigade.
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Those groups reportedly include ones established by former members of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the local communist party, and the Alex Boncayao Brigade, a communist assassination squad that killed scores of police and politicians in Manila in the 1980s.
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The Alex Boncayao Brigade, an urban hit squad of the communist New People's Army, claimed responsibility for the Dec . 11 murder of Leonardo Ty, president of Manila Paper Mills Co . The brigade said it also killed Chinese-Filipino businessman Benjamin Yu.
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The statement was faxed to news agencies in the name of the Alex Boncayao Brigade, which last Wednesday claimed responsibility for the June 12 killing of former police Lt . Col . Rolando Abadilla, who was accused of human rights violations under the late strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
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The new groups reportedly include ones established by former members of the New People's Army, the armed wing of the local communist party; and the Alex Boncayao Brigade, a communist assassination squad that killed scores of police and politicians in Manila in the 1980s.
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The source said some of the new faction's members had opposed a " rectification movement " the party leadership began after the first major split in 1992 when two regional groups, including the Manila-based Alex Boncayao Brigade assassination squad, broke away over ideological differences.
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The NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines and a breakaway group, the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade, have a presence in some areas of southern Mindanao region, where Muslim rebels have also been waging a war to establish a separate Islamic state.
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The last time Ramos called for an " all-out war " against crime, police and military officials in just two weeks rounded up more than a dozen suspected members of the Alex Boncayao Brigade, a communist hit squad which claimed responsibility for the deaths of three businessmen in December.
