Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has defended National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Vice Chairman and National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. after the latter was warned by the management of Facebook over a social media post...
Senatorial candidate and House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda on Thursday called for the resumption of peace negotiations between the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), warning that any delays in the negotiation may lead to delayed pandemic recovery efforts....
Three suspected New People's Army (NPA) fighters were killed by the military in separate armed encounters in Negros Occidental and Quezon province, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) reported Wednesday, April 20. Col. Jorry Baclor, chief of AFP public affairs office, said the successive...
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) expressed confidence Wednesday, April 6, that communist insurgency will be greatly weakened, if not totally eradicated, before President Duterte‘s last day in office in June as more rebels continue to surrender to the military. (File photo / MANILA...
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has emphasized the need for a stronger whole-of-nation approach in addressing the 50-year-old local insurgency. Go, a political ally of President Duterte, issued the statement following a call of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to the members of its...
Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana condemned the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), for its atrocities to the Filipino people as it marks its 53rd founding anniversary on Tuesday, March 29. (File photo / MANILA...
It is time for the Filipino people to unite and end more than 52 years of insurgency that has blighted the Philippines. Presidential candidate Senator Panfilo "Ping" M. Lacson made this call today (March 14) as he visited Isabela province, where the New People's Army (NPA) was born in Jones town in...
CAMP AQUINO, Tarlac City -- The Ilocos Region has been declared as the first region in the country to be in a state of stable internal peace and security or insurgency-free. This, after the signing of the Joint Regional Development Council 1 (RDC) and Regional Peace and Order Council 1 (RPOC), and...
Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., Commanding General of the Philippine Army (PA), has revealed his strategy to “finish” the insurgency problem in the country before President Duterte steps down from office in June. Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr., Commanding General of the Philippine Army, talks to...
President Duterte tried to convince New People’s Army (NPA) members to lay down their guns and surrender to the government by speaking of how wicked firearms are. President Rodrigo Duterte (Malacañang photo) But first, Duterte admitted to having a gun collection himself. And he happens to have a...
Joint military and police units figured in an armed encounter with suspected communist rebels in Ragay, Camarines Sur on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 12. An alleged communist rebel dies after an encounter with joint military and police forces in Ragay, Camarines Sur on December 12, 2021. (Photo:...
After being criticized by progressive groups on what appeared to be support for the controversial National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo on Monday, Dec. 13, maintained that the task force shouldn’t harass political...
