Kalinaw News: New Labangan National High School | Aware Students. Make Better their Future

From Kalinaw News (Jul 2, 2022): New Labangan National High School | Aware Students. Make Better their Future

In the fight against the communist terrorists, their numbers have been significantly reduced these past few years. In the Zamboanga-Lanao Peninsula, 6 out of 7 Guerilla Fronts were recently dismantled due to the relentless efforts of the military and their civilian counterparts.

Truly, the Whole of Nation Approach, the proclamation of Executive Order 70, and the Anti-terror Act proved a great obstacle for communist terrorists. Unity became key to the successful campaign to finally defeat the more than 5-decade deception of the Communist Party of the Philippines – New People’s Army – National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).

In partnership with the civilian stakeholders, the 1st Civil-Military Operations (Mahigalaon) Battalion conducts an Information Awareness Drive Campaign on Peace Advocacy to the students of the New Labangan National High School in Poblacion Labangan, ZDS. Almost 150 Senior High School students attended the said the awareness drive along with the teaching and non-teaching staff of the school.

Lieutenant Colonel Abdelhalim H. Sakilan and Captain Jeffrey P Paguia conducted a series of lectures to students of New Labangan NHS. They explained that students like themselves are the most exploitable targets for terrorist recruitment.

The students were informed how communist terrorists subtly recruits and gradually radicalize their targets, eventually turning students into terrorists themselves. Their deceptive ways normally involve befriending their targets, filling them with resentment over the government, subtly teaching them to be activists. They will be tricked and deceived into abandoning their lives, their education and their parents, then later becoming part of the New People’s Army.

As the graduating students began to understand communist terrorists’ actions and goal, they willfully wrote their names on the commitment wall, condemning terrorist acts by the CPP-NPA-NDF.

Though these terrorists’ reign of terror is almost over, it is our task to ensure that the children and their future are protected from their deceptive ways. The information that the students learned will prevent the deceptive recruitment of the CPP-NPA-NDF in colleges and universities where these graduating students will continue with their studies.

With this knowledge in hand, these students are ensured a brighter future and in turn, ultimately thwarting the communist terrorist’s schemes to increase their numbers and resume their reign of terror.

 

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