Posted to Panay News (Feb 5, 2022): ‘Shield kids from NPA recruitment’
A minor is captured during an encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the New People’s Army in Sitio Manlibod, Barangay Sandayao, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Jan. 15, 2022. PHOTO COURTESY OF 62ND IB, PHILIPPINE ARMY
The Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) in Western Visayas (Region 6) urged people to protect children from being recruited by the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and be turned into combatants.
“Let us protect our children from the deceptive recruitment of the terrorist organization,” said Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, the RTF-ELCAC spokesperson.
He issued the statement after the capture of two minors in an encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the rebel group in Sitio Manlibod, Barangay Sandayao, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Jan. 15.
The capture of the two, according to the RTF-ELCAC, proved that the CPP-NPA-NDF recruits and exploits children by training them to be fighters.
“We renew our call to all well-meaning and peace-loving citizens of Panay and Negros islands and the rest of the Filipino nation to condemn the atrocities committed by the CPP-NPA-NDF terrorist organization,” said Gonzales.
The appeal was also directed toward civil society organizations, human rights advocacy groupsss and churches.
The task force said the terrorist group is a “chronic human rights violator” that does not respect the rights of children and its ideology is based on violence, deception, terror, and chaos.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
The Anti-Terrorism Council also formally designated the NDF as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and inseparable part” of the CPP-NPA that was created in April 1973.
https://www.panaynews.net/shield-kids-from-npa-recruitment/
The Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF-ELCAC) in Western Visayas (Region 6) urged people to protect children from being recruited by the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and be turned into combatants.
“Let us protect our children from the deceptive recruitment of the terrorist organization,” said Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, the RTF-ELCAC spokesperson.
He issued the statement after the capture of two minors in an encounter between the 62nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army and the rebel group in Sitio Manlibod, Barangay Sandayao, Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental on Jan. 15.
The capture of the two, according to the RTF-ELCAC, proved that the CPP-NPA-NDF recruits and exploits children by training them to be fighters.
“We renew our call to all well-meaning and peace-loving citizens of Panay and Negros islands and the rest of the Filipino nation to condemn the atrocities committed by the CPP-NPA-NDF terrorist organization,” said Gonzales.
The appeal was also directed toward civil society organizations, human rights advocacy groupsss and churches.
The task force said the terrorist group is a “chronic human rights violator” that does not respect the rights of children and its ideology is based on violence, deception, terror, and chaos.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
The Anti-Terrorism Council also formally designated the NDF as a terrorist organization on June 23, 2021, citing it as “an integral and inseparable part” of the CPP-NPA that was created in April 1973.
https://www.panaynews.net/shield-kids-from-npa-recruitment/
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