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AFP says reds behind 141 landmine incidents since 2010 Published March 4, 2021 6:38pm Marines inspect one of several landmines recovered during clearing operations at a suspected New People's Army camp in the mountains of Sitio Lomoton, Brgy. Hinalaan Kalamansig, Sultan Kudarat on May 13, 2017. Mark Navales The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) on Thursday said that Communist groups have been behind 141 incidents of use, stockpiling, transporting, and production of anti-personnel or land mines since 2010. According to AFP Human Rights Office (AFPHRO) chief Colonel Joel Alejandro Na...

AFP chief seeks cooperation with rights bodies over NPA abuses By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News Published January 17, 2021 8:39pm Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Gilbert Gapay directed military units to enhance their coordination with human rights bodies to flag abuses committed by the communist New People's Army. "Let us endeavor to raise all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to legitimate organizations that are mandated to protect and promote the well-being of non-combatants," Gapay said in a conference attended by top military officers ...

By ERWIN COLCOL, GMA News Published January 11, 2021 1:31pm There is no need to amend the party-list system under the 1987 Constitution to address the claim that some party-list organizations are supporting communist rebels, as this issue can be simply taken up with the Commission on Elections (Comelec). House Committee on Constitutional Amendments chair Alfredo Garbin Jr. made the remark on Monday after President Rodrigo Duterte supposedly wanted an amendment to the party-list system in the 1987 Constitution to help address the problem with communist rebellion. In a virtual interview...

Published January 8, 2021 5:31pm There are other ways to remove party-list groups with alleged links to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, New People’s Army (NPA) instead of amending the 1987 Constitution, Senator Panfilo Lacson said on Friday. Lacson said taking the charter change route “might be too big a bite to take,” . . . “if indeed true that the President’s reason for reviving efforts to amend the charter is to abolish the party-list system, or at least directed at particular party-list list groups.” “When we open the valve to amend the ...

Published December 27, 2020 8:04am Supporters of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People's Army are shown in this photo holding a protest action on Mendiola Bridge in Manila on Monday, April 24, 2017. The CPP on Sat., Dec. 27, 2020 rejected the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Council to call the organization a terrorist group. Danny Pata/File photo The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Saturday rejected the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) to designate the organization, as well as its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA), as "terrorists." "The des...