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No Repression or Deception Can Defeat the People

NTF-ELCAC’s Eduardo M. Año gives a grim portent of intensifying government repression with his declaration that “With 89 active guerrilla fronts dismantled since 2018 and only one weakened front in the Bicol region remaining ... One of our biggest challenges now is dismantling the network of recruitment, support, and finance that allowed the insurgency to survive for decades.”

Año’s recycled lies meant to obscure real roots of armed conflict

Kabataang Makabayan (KM) strongly condemns the recent statements made by National Security Adviser Eduardo Año and the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which once again weaponize so-called “former rebels” to prop up the discredited narrative of a so-called “spent revolutionary force.” What Año parades as “raw, unfiltered testimonies” are, in

NTF-Elcac claims of “peace gains” exist only in their imagination

The Pambansang Katipunan ng Mabubukid (PKM) rejects the deceitful statement issued by NTF-Elcac Executive Director Ernesto Torres Jr. saying that the NTF-Elcac’s “rebranding” is a means to sustain “the peace gains already won and pushing development work even deeper.” Torres’ claims are nothing but a desperate attempt to whitewash the NTF-Elcac’s well-documented role in perpetuating