Mv karagatan howie severino biography
The July MV Karagatan incident was an unsuccessful attempt by the New People's Army — the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist Communist Party of..
MV Karagatan incident
The July 1972 MV Karagatan incident was an unsuccessful attempt by the New People's Army — the armed wing of the Marxist–Leninist–Maoist[1][2]Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) — to smuggle armaments from China into the Philippines via the ship MV Karagatan.
Join Howie Severino as he discovers one of the untold stories of the country's history that lies deep beneath the waters of the Philippines' northern Pacific.
The incident is notable for having been cited by President Ferdinand Marcos as one of his rationales for imposing martial law in the Philippines in September 1972.
Background and planning
Jose Maria Sison, the founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), requested Chinese aid for military and monetary support of the New People's Army (NPA), the CPP's armed wing.
Sison secured support from Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party.[3] At that time, China actively provided arms to North Vietnam and other left-aligned Third World countries.[4] The CPP-NPA asked for a submarine from China; instead, China agreed to fund the pur