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SenseNotSoCommon
When did the arms industry ever discriminate?
lostrune2
This well-armed insurgency problem in Mindanao has been going on for decades. It's not new or sudden
When it isn't the the communist NPA, it's the various Muslim groups
How do ya think the communists and Muslims got their weapons
From worldwide Communist Parties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization to the Japanese Red Army to the Sandinistas of Central America to the Algerian military and the Middle East
(So yeah, Japan Red Army and China and USSR and North Korea and Middle East countries all have had their hands in Mindanao)
bruinfan
What is Duterte going to do about this ?
noypikantoku
Duterte and his minions are too busy killing suspected drug dealers, that's why his intelligence unit missed this. As of now he has so many broken promises.
Asakaze
@lostrune2
Japan Red Army is a bunch of nutcases, unable of organizing of such a serious undertaking as a weapons supply line, And I'm curious how USSR, China or NK supplied boatloads of weapons under the nose of US Navy, based at Subic.
lostrune2
Mindanao is far away from Subic base that it's not even relevant
And Mindanao has had weapons smuggled in for decades that has led to developed underground networks passing thru the porous waters of the dilapidated Philippine coast guard
These communist and Muslim insurgencies didn't survive for decades if not for the underground networks
veejay
I can hear Duterte Harry firing up the chopper now
ThePBot
I lived in Mindanao for a while, and yes, it's so easy to smuggle arms in the south. It comes from Malaysia I think. The thing about Duterte is that he's extended an olive branch to some of the Muslim rebel groups (and also with communists), like the MNLF in the south. This article is talking about the....uhm...MILF. I know the Abu Sayyaf is allied with ISIS and refuses to work with Duterte. I've read that the MNLF would be able to help Duterte defeat radical Islamists if there was no US presence there. Translate that in any way you want.
turbotsat
How is the US presence stopping anything? What's the extrajudicial killing count up to now?
Otacon512
Moro Islamic Liberation Front = MILF
sensei258
So the attack was led by more than 100 MILFs?
Kuya 808
I'm curious how USSR, China or NK supplied boatloads of weapons under the nose of US Navy, based at Subic.
The US Navy base at Subic Bay was closed in 1992.
I had a chance to see a cache of weapons that were captured by the Philippine military and Philippine National Police (PNP) during operations against insurgent groups in central and southern Mindanao. I was surprised to see a large number of M-16s, M-4 carbines and M-60 machine guns, all US manufactured. A good number of them were stamped with the letters DND which stands for Department of National Defense which is how weapons issued to the Philippine military are marked.
The general consensus was that a lot of these weapons were diverted from the supply stream of the Philippine government by individuals with access to the weapons inventory and a well developed profit motivation. I was personally offered a brand new M-4 carbine with 10,000 rounds of ammunition for 50,000 PHP ( around $1000 at the time) by an individual with connections to the PNP (Philippine National Police).
With the right connections military grade arms a readily available and relatively easy to obtain. And there are millions of them floating around the black market.
Asakaze
@lostrune2
I know geography. My point is that IF there was a serious flow of shipments of weapons from China etc the USN must have intervened to help its ally.
@Kuya 808
The conflict in the Philippines we're talking about had started decades before that. But thanks for the information about what you saw. Interesting.