[4] The casualties of the Samar boat explosion included NPA leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon who were originally arrested in March 22, 2014.

[3] A motorboat carrying ten members of the New People's Army (NPA) exploded on August 21, 2022 off the waters of Catbalogan, Samar.

[8] The Army was unable to immediately retrieve physical evidence confirming the deaths of its passengers, which was believed to include CPP-NPA figures Benito and Wilma Tiamzon.

[7] The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) would release their own account of what transpired in Samar months later on April 20, 2023 as per internal reports of their own Central Committee.

The rebel group believes that the corpse of their ten members including the Tiamzons were loaded into a motorboat filled with explosives which was later detonated to dispose of them.

[12] Following their confirmation of the incident in April 2023, the CPP–NPA instructed its fighters to honor the Tiamzons during the 50th founding anniversary of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines through a 21-gun salute.

He believes with the death of its prominent leader Jose Maria Sison in December 2022 and the Tiamzons in August 2022 that the Communist rebellion is left with "no direction or future".