Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 06:49:13 +0000
IN the wake of the spate of killings in Negros, President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the military to give the communist rebels “tit for tat,” reiterating his plan to implement…READ
Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 13:58:09 +0000
For newly installed Nolcom chief Maj. Gen. Ramiro Rey, the local communist insurgency is the biggest security challenge in his area of responsibility.
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Credit to Author: racosta| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 21:06:22 +0000
The country has “so many problems” that “if you were the president of a nation such as this, you would be tempted to hang yourself.”
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Read moreCredit to Author: CATHERINE S. VALENTE, TMT| Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 09:43:23 +0000
PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte approved a national plan to integrate the government’s efforts to address the armed conflict with local communists, Malacañang said on Tuesday. Speaking to reporters, Palace spokesman Salvador…READ
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:11:11 +0000
CPP founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison has downplayed the government’s plan to create a task force against the insurgency in 81 provinces.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:40:57 +0000
The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Benjamin Madrigal Jr., urged other local governments to follow the example of Sibagat town in Agusan del Sur, which formally condemned the communist rebels.
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:18:59 +0000
BONGABON, Nueva Ecija UEVA — Communist rebels from Mindanao have been helping local members of the New People’s Army (NPA) intensify their operations in Nueva Ecija, Aurora and Nueva Vizcaya provinces, an Army official said here.
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Read moreCredit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:25:48 +0000
Police profiling of members of the Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) is part of a government witch hunt, both the Philippine National Police and the teachers’ group said on Tuesday. PNP Director General Oscar Albayalde said police efforts to identify ACT members on the faculty of schools were part of the campaign to end the […]
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Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:38:40 +0000
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Tuesday admitted that it was impossible to end the communist insurgency this year despite plans by the Armed Forces of the Philippines. “We cannot do it (end insurgency) this year because that is a big problem,” Lorenzana said on the sidelines of Tuesday’s joint Department of National Defense-AFP new year’s […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 09:00:09 +0000
THE problem of insurgency in the country may be solved in three years, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Tuesday. Lorenzana’s deadline contradicts the one-year, which Armed Forces Chief Benjamin…READ
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