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Two Americans have died in the Philippines during a military engagement that the government said involved communist-linked groups.<\/p>\n

Lyle Prijoles, 40, and transgender woman Kai Dana-Rene Sorem, 26, were among the 19 people killed last month during a firefight between the Philippine Army and suspected members of a communist insurgency.<\/p>\n

The U.S.-born Filipino Americans are now at the center of a disputed encounter, with critics alleging the two were active combatants for the New People\u2019s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which has been designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Human rights groups and the NPA, however, reportedly maintain that the pair were civilian activists who posed no military threat.<\/p>\n

According<\/a> to the City Journal, the two Americans were first exposed to left-wing ideology through college-linked institutions that critics say helped pave the way to involvement with groups the Philippine government has long argued serve as fronts for the CPP.<\/p>\n

FAMILIAR PROTEST GROUPS MOBILIZE IMMEDIATELY AFTER ICE SHOOTING OF MINNESOTA PROTESTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“This brings to two (2) the number of U.S. citizens\u2014Lyle Prijoles and Kai Dana-Rene Sorem\u2014who died in the same incident, a development that highlights the increasing involvement of individuals from outside the Philippines in local armed hostilities,” the Philippines’ National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said.<\/p>\n

“The presence of two American fatalities in a single encounter should prompt careful reflection on how involvement in certain activities or networks may lead to unintended exposure to dangerous environments.”<\/p>\n

On April 19, Philippine troops engaged in an armed encounter in Toboso, Negros Occidental, according to the NTF-ELCAC. The agency characterized the 19 dead as enemy combatants during an operation aimed at dismantling the decades-long communist insurgency in the Philippines.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, family members and human rights advocates reportedly described Prijoles and Sorem as dedicated civilian community activists. The NPA acknowledged that 10 of those killed were members of its armed revolutionary force, but claimed the remaining victims \u2014 including several activists such as Prijoles and Sorem \u2014 posed no military threat, the San Francisco Standard reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

INSIDE THE FAR LEFT ‘BREEDING GROUND’ UNIVERSITIES ALLEGED WHCD CALLED HOME FOR YEARS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2012, Prijoles, a Filipino American born and raised in San Diego, California, was involved with Anakbayan, which translates to “Children of the Nation,” a prominent left-wing youth and student organization founded in the Philippines in 1998. Anakbayan-USA operates across several major U.S. college campuses and has drawn scrutiny from critics over its opposition to U.S. involvement in the Philippines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His activism reportedly began after attending San Francisco<\/a> State University around 2004, when he joined the League of Filipino Students (LFS), a left-wing political alliance rooted in Marxist, Leninist and Maoist ideology, the City Journal said.<\/p>\n

After 2006, Prijoles reportedly made several trips to the Philippines organized by Bayan USA, another left-wing activist network. The Philippine government has alleged that both organizations function as fronts for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).<\/p>\n

Prijoles also may have harbored animosity toward the Armed Forces of the Philippines after his friend \u2014 the father of his godchild and chairperson of the U.S. chapter of the International Coalition for Human Rights<\/a> in the Philippines \u2014 survived a 2019 assassination attempt that left him paralyzed, according to City Journal.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kai Dana Sorem was a Filipino American from Seattle whose political development was initially shaped by a search for personal and cultural identity, according<\/a> to advocacy group Malaya Movement.<\/p>\n

Her early political involvement reportedly included serving as a legislative page for the Washington State<\/a> Democratic Party. Sorem later deepened her activism within left-wing Filipino diaspora organizations while attending the Central Washington University in 2020. She later launched the South Seattle chapter of Anakbayan, Malaya Movement said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2025, Sorem reportedly traveled to the Philippines on a U.S.-based exposure trip, and by 2026, she had relocated to the country full-time to work as an organizer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/two-suspected-american-communist-insurgents-killed-clash-philippines <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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