National Security Adviser and NTF-ELCAC co-vice chairperson Eduardo Año (File photo) President Marcos has committed to allot additional fund for the Support to Barangay Development Program (SBDP), a socio-economic intervention project for communities freed from the influence of communist...
As the New People’s Army (NPA) marked its 55 th founding anniversary last March 29, its remaining leaders and members were again urged by the national government to lay down their weapons and end the armed struggle so lasting peace can finally be achieved in the country. In a statement on Easter...
Surigao del Norte is declared an insurgency-free province during a ceremony at the Provincial Gymnaisum in Surigao City on March 15, 2024. (Photo courtesy of 4th Infantry Division, Philippine Army) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced Wednesday, March 20, that it was elated with the...
SURIGAO CITY – Surigao del Norte has been declared insurgency-free after the massive and successive surrender of high-ranking New People’s Army leaders in the province at the provincial gymnasium here on Friday, March 15. Gov. Lyndon Barbers said that the province has become conflict-manageable...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief, General Romeo Brawner Jr. (right) turns over the command symbol to Maj. Gen. Facundo Palafox IV as the new commander of the Southern Luzon Command (SolCom), replacing Lt. Gen. Efren Baluyot, during the change of command ceremony at Camp Guillermo Nakar...
A town in the province of Laguna has been declared free from the clutches of the New People’s Army. PEACE was achieved as the municipality of Cavinti, Laguna has been declared insurgency-free. (Photo via Danny Estacio) Cavinti was the third town in Laguna declared by the 2nd Infantry Division of...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) denied that Hannah Jay Cesista, a Bar passer who died in an encounter by state security forces with New People’s Army (NPA) in Bohol, was tortured and killed. Col. Francel Margareth Padilla, AFP spokesperson, said that claims on the circumstances of the...
The Philippine Army (PA) clarified on Saturday, February 24, the academic affiliation of a lawyer who died in an encounter between state security forces and the New People's Army (NPA) in Bilar, Bohol. Hannah Jay Cesista alias "Maya / Lean", 26, took up law at the University of San Carlos,...
A lawyer who allegedly got recruited by the New People's Army (NPA) was among those killed in an armed encounter between the state forces and the communist group in Bilar, Bohol last Friday, February 23, the Philippine Army said. Col. Louie Dema-ala, Philippine Army spokesperson, said Hannah...
Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director of National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (Photo by NTF-ELCAC) The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to grant a temporary protection order (TPO) and writs of amparo and habeas data to two environmental activists who claimed...
(Courtesy of 802nd Infantry Brigade / Facebook) (Updated) Two alleged New People's Army (NPA) rebels who were tagged in the killing of their former comrades who surrendered to the government died in an encounter with Philippine Army (PA) troops in Albuera, Leyte on Saturday morning, Feb. 10....
The Philippine government is now pursuing a comprehensive peace and development plan that may probably replace the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), a top police official said on Monday, Feb. 5. But PNP chief Gen. Benjamin Acorda, Jr. also rejected the proposal...
