Seven Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) bandits have surrendered in Sulu province as the love of family and loss of leadership prompted them to return to the fold of the law.
The Philippine Army’s 2nd Infantry Division (2ID) has declared the province of Batangas as now free from communist insurgency.
Senators are calling for an end to the spate of killings in the country. Senator Richard Gordon, chairman of the Senate justice and human rights committee, said on Thursday, March 11 that the recent deaths and crimes already constitute a violation of human rights.
The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC 6) condemned the recent attacks committed by the terrorist Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) against the 603rd Regional Mobile Force Battalion (RMFB-6) and the Lambunao municipal police in Iloilo.
The Philippines on Monday appealed to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “to stop the practice of making sweeping prejudgments on incidents in the Philippines and elsewhere without first verifying facts on the ground” citing that these have dangerous consequences.
Some nine towns in Northern Samar have been identified as priority areas for the deployment of teams tasked to combat the decades-old insurgency in the province.
Rather than destroying the country, the New People’s Army (NPA) communist terrorists should stop committing atrocities, lay down their arms, and rejoin mainstream society.
The alleged life-threatening acts of intelligence gathering and profiling reportedly done by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) prompted several petitioners and their lawyers to press the Supreme Court (SC) to stop the implementation of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020.
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