How the CPP executed the Plaza Miranda bombing


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Second of 3 parts EXCERPTS from Gregg Jones' 'Red Revolution': In mid-August 1971, CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines) central committee member Reuben Guevarra arrived in Manila for discussions with party officials. Guevarra was a member of the CPP's powerful military commission and was the political officer in charge of the northern Luzon region, which included the Isabela guerrilla front. The horror: Young man hit by a shrapnel in the bombing. PHOTO FROM ASIA PHILIPPINES LEADER At dusk on August 21, central committee member Manuel Collantes picked up Guevarra and drove him to a communist safe house in a comfortable...