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INSURGENCY-FREE. Former members of the New People's Army hold a peace rally Wednesday (April 20, 2022) expressing support for the peace campaign of the military in Zamboanga del Norte. The province has been declared insurgency-free after the Army's 102nd Infantry Brigade successfully dismantled the last NPA guerrilla front in the area earlier this month. (Photo courtesy of the 102IB) ZAMBOANGA CITY - Zamboanga del Norte is now insurgency-free after state forces successfully dismantled the last guerrilla front of the New People's Army (NPA) operating in the area, officials said Thursday. Brig. Gen. Leonel Nicolas, the Army's 102nd Infantry Brigade commander, said the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) of Zamboanga del Norte declared the province as such through a resolution approved Wednesday. Nicolas said the last NPA guerrilla unit in the province, Guerrilla Front Big Beautiful Country, was officially dismantled on April 4. "We