The Baguio City Council declared the New People’s Army persona non grata in a resolution passed on January 20, 2020. Baguio City is the 44th Cordillera local government that declared the NPA persona non grata according to the Regional Task Force to End Local Communist… Read More
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
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
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
A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) described as “the height of hypocrisy” House Resolution No. 374 introduced by Gabriela Women’s Party-list and other members of the Makabayan bloc that directs the House Committee on Human… Read More
The Duterte Administration is determined to find a long-lasting solution to the insurgency in the country within its term, according to Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. “With the strong leadership and political will of the Duterte administration, we will no longer pass on… Read More
