When Rodrigo Duterte won the Philippines 2016 presidential election by a landslide,

millions of Filipinos hailed him as the man who would stand up to the domestic

and foreign powers who keep the country impoverished. But today, more Filipinos have been killed

by Duterte's government than the thousands murdered by Ferdinand Marcos, the U.S.

Bacchic Tata who enforced a bloody era of martial law in the 70s. Duterte's broken his pledge

to break the Philippine 65-year-old military alliance with the United States.

Millions of dollars of U.S. military aid continue to pour in, and last year they went to war together,

raising large parts of the Muslim city Marawi to the ground.

His election promise of peace talks with communist militants also hasn't got anywhere yet.

One moment he asked them to talk, and the next he threatens a new crackdown. It's been going

on like this for months. The guerrilla are fighting in one of the world's oldest communist

insurgencies for the new people's army, founded by 79-year-old Jose Maria Cisun who lives in exile.

We went to meet the fighters who are taking the MPA into its 50th year. Deep in Mindanael's

mountainous bookied non-provence, we travel through the dead of night to stay out of the military

sites, to a base that was still being set up as we arrived. This mobile platoon is constantly

on the move. Their task is to spread the reach of the MPA in the vast Filipino countryside.

Politically, in the whole Philippines, it's scattered into three big islands, the

zone besides Mindanael, and particularly in Mindanael, the strategic mountains, which is

very suitable for the region revolution, is already occupied by the guerrilla fronts.

The entire Philippines, according to the data, we have already 120-plus guerrilla zones,

and particularly in our region, in our central Mindanael. We have then guerrilla fronts.

The MPA follow the teachings of Chairman Mao Zedong, the leader of the Chinese Communist

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