Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Armed conflict with the CPP–NPA===
Under martial law the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's army was a period of significant growth.<ref name="RebellionRepressionPh" />{{rp|page=43}}<ref name="marcosMartialLawNeverAgain" /> This continued into the 1980s. The NPA established itself in urban areas while the NDF formed relationships with legal opposition organizations – all despite Marcos' claims in January 1981 that the conflict had been "substantially contained".<ref name="Celoza1997"/>{{rp|[{{google books|plainurl=y|id=Sp3U1oCNKlgC|page=73}} 73]}}<ref name="GovPH-PP2045"/> The killing of key leaders in Davao city in the opening years of the 1980s led the administration to claim that the CPP "backbone" in the south had broken,"<ref>{{cite news|agency=Philippine News Agency|title=Communist backbone in south broken|publisher=Times Journal |volume= X |issue= 336|date=September 23, 1982}}</ref>  But the remaining leaders soon began to experiment with new tactics including urban insurrection, leading the international press to label Davao City as the "Killing Fields", and as "the Philippines' 'Murder Capital'".<ref name="ChapmanPost">{{Cite news |last=Chapman |first=William |date=May 19, 1985 |title=A Philippine Laboratory Of Revolution |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1985/05/19/a-philippine-laboratory-of-revolution/a91a2664-f069-4886-8247-3c14514d3ebf/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230401144754/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1985/05/19/a-philippine-laboratory-of-revolution/a91a2664-f069-4886-8247-3c14514d3ebf/ |archive-date=April 1, 2023 |access-date=January 7, 2024 |newspaper=Washington Post |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>  The violence reached its peak in 1985 with 1,282 military and police deaths and 1,362 civilian deaths.<ref name="web.stanford.edu" />