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Once a military general who pursued rebels in Mindanao with a gun, Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. is now on a different mission, convincing insurgents to lay down their arms and return to mainstream society using the power of words. Galvez – who heads the Office of the...

LEADING THE GUERILLAS Huk Supremo Luis Taruc reading a newspaper in his hideout somewhere in Central Luzon Do amnesties work? After studying the data set of all amnesties enacted since 1946, Geoff Dancy in his article “Deals with the Devil? Conflict Amnesties, Civil War, and Sustainable Peace”...

A total of 706 communist rebels have been neutralized by the military in Eastern Mindanao this 2022, a ranking official disclosed Saturday, Nov. 12. Lt. Gen. Bartolome Vicente Bacarro, Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippibes (AFP), speaks during the traditional "Talk to Troops" when...

LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta In the Philippines, not a single ripple was felt when the Bolshevik Revolution or the Great October Socialist Revolution ripped Russia asunder in 1917. A communist party was established in 1918 and the year after, the first Communist International (Comintern or CI) was...