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Conrado Balweg (December 29, 1942 – December 31, 1999) was a former Filipino Catholic priest and rebel who was the founder of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, a militant group which advocated autonomy for the Cordillera region in the Philippines.
Conrado Balweg was a former Filipino Catholic priest and rebel who was the founder of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, a militant group which advocated autonomy for the Cordillera region in the Philippines.
Sep 13, 2024 · Conrado Balweg, a former Catholic priest turned revolutionary leader, was a prominent figure in the fight for Cordilleran autonomy. Born in 1944 to a Tingguian family, part of the broader Igorot community, Balweg emerged from the highlands of the Cordillera to lead a movement that would leave a lasting mark on Philippine history.
Balweg denounces the CPA/NPA as a totalitarian organization, acting against the interests of the Igorots and ruled by city dwellers in the lowland. Because of the different country structures he pleads only for regional struggles for liberations, no national ones.
Aug 22, 2014 · Of all such required characteristics, it was the existence of the bodong system as propounded by Fr. Conrado Balweg, S.V. D., alias Ka Ambo that caught the eye and acquiescence of the National Government to prepare the giving of the envisioned autonomy to Cordillera through the issuance of Executive Order 220 signed by then President ...
Informed and thinking Filipinos know that Fr. Conrado Balweg is dead. I am posting this decade old piece to provide some background about his life, his milieu, the thoughts and ideas on what propelled him to become a revolutionary.
Jul 5, 2013 · TAKING the oath, in the local parlance, “panagsapata,” impacts the Cordilleran’s consciousness and subconscious in a manner much more weighty perhaps than it does those of their non-Cordilleran countrymen in the plains. Even the phraseology already indicates that.
