
WATCH | Duterte slams human rights groups for ignoring abuses by communist rebels
President Rodrigo Duterte has criticized the communist rebels for killing barangay captains and other local government officials.
President Rodrigo Duterte has criticized the communist rebels for killing barangay captains and other local government officials.
President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday urged the communist rebels to lay down their weapons and the drug personalities to stop their illegal activities.
Progressive party-list groups use public funds to support communist rebels, President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday.
President Duterte and Senator Panfilo Lacson ought to name the communist rebels in Vice President Leni Robredo’s campaign team lest be accused of peddling fake news to weaken her candidacy, said an ally of the presidential bet.
The campaign team of presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo has not been infiltrated by communist rebels, senatorial bet Antonio Trillanes IV said.
With the threat from local communist and terrorist rebels being reduced, now is the time for the government to focus its attention on the security threats in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), which impair the food needs and livelihood of Filipinos, Partido Reporma presidential candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson said.
The Administrative Order (AO) 35 inter-agency task force on extrajudicial killings is currently investigating around 1,500 cases involving those committed by communist rebels, Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra revealed.
National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Sunday assured the public that the development fund for the Barangay Development Program (BDP) of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) are “released following the stringent evaluation of the government agencies concerned.”
Former Senator Antonio Trillanes IV has appealed to the military to avoid joining the alleged extrajudicial killings being conducted by the police.
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra on Monday (March 8) defended the statement made by President Rodrigo Duterte to kill all communist rebels.