Iloilo City, a highly-urbanized city (HUC) in Western Visayas is throwing support to the efforts of the national government to put an end to the local communist armed conflict. City stakeholders gathered on Wednesday for the nationwide simultaneous people’s support rally and peace covenant signing… Read More
Local peace engagements under the Duterte administration’s whole-of-nation approach are gaining traction as revolutionary organizations are giving up armed struggle and returning to the folds of the law. This, as 266 members of the Rebolusyonaryong Partidong Manggagawa ng Pilipinas/ Revolutionary Proletarian Army/ Alex Boncayao… Read More
Indigenous peoples (IPs) have been leading the demolition of the Salugpungan schools that they once helped build, following the permanent closure of these educational facilities, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said on October 25, 2019. The move came after the Department of Education (DepEd)… Read More
The gradual integration of peace education in the general curriculum of schools and universities is seen as an effective measure to prevent and counter violent extremism and communist insurgency in the country, according to Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. “Peace education should be comprehensive… Read More
The Duterte administration has not set peace process barriers as claimed by columnist and political activist Satur Ocampo but the communists themselves, according to Atty. Wilben Mayor, spokesperson of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. “We would like to remind Mr.… Read More
A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) lambasted former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo for discrediting President Rodrigo Duterte’s Executive Order No. 70 which institutionalizes a “whole-of-nation approach” in combatting communist insurgency. Major General Antonio Parlade,… Read More
The military and police, in some cases, are tasked to maintain security in schools against crime, terrorism and insurgencies. This, according to a ranking official of the Philippine National Police in an interview at the Philippine News Agency’s “Pros and Cons” program on Oct. 12,… Read More
After suffering physical abuse from her father, she left home and ended up being recruited into the New People’s Army (NPA) at just nine years old. She was a slim, long-haired girl when the “hukbo” (corps) enlisted her to the Sparrow Unit tasked to kill… Read More
A group of indigenous peoples (IPs) emerged determined before members of the Filipino community in Germany, saying fear no longer hinders them from telling the world about what the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) has been doing to their communities.… Read More
What is a soldier? You see them in the news. You see them in video games, in TV, movies, the Internet. We see the action. Amazed in the equipment. In awe of the skills. But what is a soldier? What lies behind the guns, the… Read More
