Hukbalahap

The Hukbalahap was an anti- Japanese resistance movement in the Philippines during the Second World War. The full name of the movement in Tagalog ng Bayan Laban sa is Hukbo mga Hapon ( Anti-Japanese People's Army ).

The Hukbalahap is considered the best organized and most effective organization in the resistance against the Japanese army in Southeast Asia. Their leader was Luis Taruc. It was directed not only against the Japanese occupying forces, but also against the large landowners to their detriment they wanted to carry out a social revolution and land reforms.

The end of 1944 they controlled Zentralluzon. Also in other parts of the Philippines, they undermined the rule of the Japanese and made ​​a great contribution in the reconquest of the Philippines by the United States.

After the return of American General MacArthur declared the Hukbalahap immediately as a rebel organization and let Luis Taruc arrested.

In the 1946 election, the Hukbalahap supported by Sergio Osmeña cited Democratic Alliance.

The leader of the Hukbalahap want to realize in the Philippines Marxist ideals. From 1946 to 1954, the Hukbalahap led by an uprising in which it was also about the recognition as a freedom fighter of World War II and for a share of reparations. In 1950, some Philippine provinces under the control of the Hukbalahap. After Luis Taruc voluntarily gave up in 1954, the movement disbanded.

Because of the need for land reform remained, the Hukbalahap in the sixties was new. She presented its activities in 1970, a final, after President Marcos in 1969 a military offensive led against them.

Due to the resolution of the Hukbalahap some of its former members founded together with other persons, in 1969 the Ejército del Pueblo Nuevo Maoist.