Published May 2, 2021, 4:09 PM
Operatives of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) have arrested a 21-year-old woman who was tagged as a member of the communist underground movement in a raid in Naga City, police said on Sunday, May 2.
CIDG director Maj. Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro said the operation that occurred on Sunday morning in Barangay Cararayan in Naga City also resulted in the confiscation of a handgun, a grenade and improvised explosive materials.
He identified the arrested woman as Maria Jesusa Sta. Rosa.
Maria Jesusa Sta Rosa was arrested in a raid in Naga City after she allegedly yielded a gun, a grenade and improvised explosive device. She is being linked to communist insurgency underground movement.
A newly-opened, long and winding road going to the hinterlands of barangay Kinam has paved the way for developmental projects and government services to pour into the now rebel-free community.
The road-opening project that started in 2020 was initiated by the partnership of the 52nd Engineer Brigade-512th Engineer Construction Battalion and the local governments of Malapatan and Sarangani province with the goal of bringing to an end the decade-long armed conflict between New People’s Army rebels and government troops in Kinam.
The road project is one of the responses to the mandate of President Rodrigo Duterte thru Executive Order No. 70 institutionalizing the Whole-of-Nation Approach creating a National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict or ELCAC.
April 30, 2021 DEFUNDING the P19-billion budget of the National Task Force to end Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) will affect barangays who had fought to clear their communities from communist influence and insurgency, Davao Oriental Governor Nelson Dayanghirang said Thursday, April 29. We appeal to those who are calling to defund the Elcac to open their hearts and minds to the plea of our people. Defunding the [Elcac] would be a huge disservice to these barangays who fought long and hard to clear their communities from communist influence and insurgency that has brought nothing but fear and poverty aggravated by violence, he said.
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Published April 27, 2021, 6:51 PM
Solicitor General Jose C. Calida asked the Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday, April 27, to dismiss all the 37 petitions that challenged the constitutionality of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020.
During the online oral arguments, Calida said the enactment of ATA is political in nature that cannot be delved into by the courts, there are supervening events that warrant the dismissal of the petitions, and petitioners do not have legal standing to challenge the law.
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Calida told the SC that ATA “is not an instrument of oppression and neither is it a tool to suppress the vibrance of our democracy.”