BAGUIO CITY, June 11(PIA) -- An alleged high ranking member of the Communist Party of the Philippines(CPP) voluntarily returned to the fold of the law.
National Security Adviser and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Vice Chairman Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Cordillera Regional Peace and Order Council Chairman, Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, presented Anne Margarette Tauli, an alleged Executive Committee member and former secretary of the Regional White Area Committee of the Ilocos- Cordillera Regional Committee (ICRC), in a simple ceremony in Baguio City today.
According to Esperon, Tauli’s voluntary return to the fold of the law was facilitated by her sister, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.
“I came here (Baguio) from Besao, Mountain Province and the Generals here facilitated my safe arrival here after being locked down for three months due to the COVID-19 protocols” Tauli said during her presentation at Navy Base here.
“I came here to clear my name from the various charges that have been hounding me since I have been there as a law abiding citizen in Besao for the past years,” she said.
National Security Adviser and National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) Vice Chairman Hermogenes Esperon Jr. presents Anne Margarette Tauli, an alleged Executive Committee member and former secretary of the Regional White Area Committee of the Ilocos- Cordillera Regional Committee (ICRC) , in Baguio City on June 11, 2020..(RMC- PIA-CAR)
Philippine Army 503rd Infantry Brigade (503rd IB) Brigadier General Henry Doyaoen, Police Regional Office - Cordillera (PRO-Cor) Brigadier General R’Win Pagkalinawan with retired Army General Ramon Yogyog fetched Tauli in Besao thru the Philippine Air Force Tactical Operations Group 1 after she turned herself to the law enforcers in the area.
Esperon said the action of Tauli is a good gesture to support the effort of the government under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte in ending the more than 50 years of insurgency and the nonsense deaths of Filipinos.
He added that Tauli’s willingness to return to the fold of the law should serve as an encouragement to others.
“We hope that for those others that are still out there, you see the point that your more than 50 years of struggle has brought us nothing but depravation and some hardships especially for those in the countryside,” he added.
Esperon said Tauli has provided abode and shelter to high ranking officers of the CPP-NPA-NDF including the late Julius Soriano Giron, chairman of the National Military Commission and the National Finance Commission of the CPP-NPA.
Giron together with Lourdes Tan Torres, also known as “Ma. Lourdes Dineros Tangco,” a member of the CPP Executive Committee and a security aide were killed in a joint police and military operation in Barangay Queen of Peace in Baguio City on March 13 after resisting arrest.
“By providing shelter to the enemy of the state, she is liable for having violated the laws of the land and she has come out to be with the force of the law, and to be able to clear her name,” Esperon added.
He said Tauli will be processed for entitlement to the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP), a government program to encourage members of the CPP-NPA-NDF to have a new life with their families.
E-CLIP provides a complete package of assistance to former rebels who were members of the CPP-NPA-NDF as well as their family members who have abandoned armed struggle and become productive members of the society.
E-CLIP and Amnesty Program is one out of the 12 clusters under Executive Order 70 dubbed as the “Whole-of-Nation Approach” to end local communist armed conflict in the country. (JDP/RMC- PIA-CAR)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1044534
Esperon said the action of Tauli is a good gesture to support the effort of the government under the leadership of President Rodrigo Duterte in ending the more than 50 years of insurgency and the nonsense deaths of Filipinos.
He added that Tauli’s willingness to return to the fold of the law should serve as an encouragement to others.
“We hope that for those others that are still out there, you see the point that your more than 50 years of struggle has brought us nothing but depravation and some hardships especially for those in the countryside,” he added.
Esperon said Tauli has provided abode and shelter to high ranking officers of the CPP-NPA-NDF including the late Julius Soriano Giron, chairman of the National Military Commission and the National Finance Commission of the CPP-NPA.
Giron together with Lourdes Tan Torres, also known as “Ma. Lourdes Dineros Tangco,” a member of the CPP Executive Committee and a security aide were killed in a joint police and military operation in Barangay Queen of Peace in Baguio City on March 13 after resisting arrest.
“By providing shelter to the enemy of the state, she is liable for having violated the laws of the land and she has come out to be with the force of the law, and to be able to clear her name,” Esperon added.
He said Tauli will be processed for entitlement to the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program (E-CLIP), a government program to encourage members of the CPP-NPA-NDF to have a new life with their families.
E-CLIP provides a complete package of assistance to former rebels who were members of the CPP-NPA-NDF as well as their family members who have abandoned armed struggle and become productive members of the society.
E-CLIP and Amnesty Program is one out of the 12 clusters under Executive Order 70 dubbed as the “Whole-of-Nation Approach” to end local communist armed conflict in the country. (JDP/RMC- PIA-CAR)
https://pia.gov.ph/news/articles/1044534
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