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(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO) Fifty-six members of the Batakang Organisasyong Pangpartido (BOP), 50 members of the Yunit Milisya (YM), and 12 members of the Organisadong Masa have sworn allegiance to the government after abandoning communist ideologies. Nine of them were barangay chairmen and council members in the town.   Matuguinao Mayor Aran Boller gave an ultimatum on Feb. 15 to 353 identified CPP-NPA-NDF members and supporters to lay down their arms to achieve lasting peace in the NPA-infested municipality. He warned that those who failed to surrender would be charged under the Anti-Terr...

Published February 5, 2021, 5:43 PM TACLOBAN CITY – After years of being terrorized, residents of a conflict-infected area in the hinterlands of Samar found their voice against the communist rebels. Residents and local officials here burned the flags of the rebel group and committed to convincing those who continue to support them to return to the folds of the law in a ceremonial signing of peace covenant recently. (Marie Marticio / File photo / MANILA BULLETIN) Marty dela Cruz, a former barangay chairman in Barangay Diit, Matuguinao, Samar, said the Communist Party of the Philippines-New P...

CAMP LUKBAN, Catbalogan City, Jan. 29 -- Some 350 residents of Matuguinao, Samar joined a walk for peace and rejected the presence of the Communist Party of the Philippines - New People’s Army - National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) in their municipality, in a Peace Assembly on Friday, January 29, 2021. Led by Mayor Aran Boller and Vice Mayor Cleofe Belonio, the participants, who included barangay officials, law enforcers, employees of various government agencies, and former rebels, denounce the communist terrorists' deceptive recruitment scheme of the youth and the atrocities committed a...