Maoist militants promised to launch wider and bigger offensives with more armed fighters next year. Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos, the spokesperson of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) for Mindanao, said the New People's Army (NPA) will intensify attacks especially in the southern Philippines. The NPA is the armed wing of the NDFP and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
Madlos told reporters during the CPPÂ’s 45th founding anniversary on December 26, they will deploy more NPA fighters in their attacks against the government forces in 2014. Madlos claimed that in 2010, the NPA initiated 250 attacks, 350 armed operations in 2011, and more than 400 offensives in 2012.
He said, “This year, the revolutionary forces launched more than 400 offensives, and next year, we will launch more than 500 tactical offensives."
Based on the CPP statement, part of their tactical offensives were successful assaults on Del Monte Philippines plantation, the raid conducted on an army detachment in Barangay Lantad, Balingasag, Misamis Oriental.
Also included was the confiscation of firearms of Dasia Security Agency in Tagum City and the raid on Philippine National Police headquarters in Kibawe town in Bukidnon and Don Victoriano, Misamis Occidental.