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Alex Boncayao Brigade  

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  • The Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB) was a Manila-based Communist hit squad that assassinated dozens of people on the orders of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) during the 1980s and 1990s. Formed by a group a leftist intellectuals in the mid-1960s, in 1969 the CPP formed the New People's Army (NPA) and went to war against the Philippine government. [Source: Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Alex Boncayao Brigade]

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