June 2021 | International Law Alerts | Terrorism

A party-list lawmaker from Mindanao on Tuesday emphasized the need to revive the House sub-committee on Marawi Recovery, Reconstruction and Rehabilitation to help oversee the necessary actions that will hasten the post-disaster recovery and normalization of the most affected communities in Marawi City, four years after it was laid to siege.

A bomb expert of the Communist Party of the Philippines -New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) has severed his ties with the terror group seeing the government is serious in its peace efforts.

President Rodrigo Duterte said members of the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP) politburo are now either “millionaires” or “billionaires” because of deceived insurgents who continue to be subservient to them.

The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF 6-ELCAC) has called for the end of terrorism in the country as it condemned the killing of two civilians in Masbate by an anti-personnel mine (APM) explosion planted by the New People’s Army (NPA).

Twenty-six loose firearms were turned over by local chief executives in Basilan to the military as part of the continued campaign against the proliferation of unlicensed guns through the Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) program.

Anti-communist groups on Thursday slammed anew on the continuous coddling of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria “Joma” Sison and his colleagues by the Netherlands government.

An Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) leader, who is known to behead hostages, and three of his followers were killed in a clash during a law enforcement operation in the province of Sulu, the military announced on Monday.

The Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) will meet before the end of June to fine-tune internal rules, a senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official said Monday.

Formal charges for murder and frustrated murder have been filed by the police against 24 suspected New People’s Army (NPA) rebels responsible for detonating anti-personnel mine (APM) that killed Far Eastern University football player Keith Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon in Masbate City last June 6.

Malacañang on Monday vowed to implement the government’s action plans to address all anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) deficiencies of the country.

In just two weeks, a total of 505 members and supporters of the New People’s Army (NPA) yielded to the government in Masbate province, expressing their condemnation of the recent atrocities of the communist terrorist group (CTG).

The Philippines and Saudi Arabia underscored the need for greater cooperation to fight violent extremism as the two countries continue to find ways to intensify tie-ups.

By exploiting social grievances and gender stereotypes, “the fight against terrorism has itself caused damage”, inspiring lone actors and co-opting other groups, Secretary-General António Guterres told the Second High-level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism.

Vladimir Voronkov, head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (OCT), concluded the Second High-level Conference of Heads of Counter-Terrorism, by summing up four of the strategic challenges facing the world today.