Once again it is important to remember that the AFP has declared the CPP-NPA to be strategically defeated and so weakened that they are without leadership meaning they are unable to launch attacks and recruit. Yet we are still being told about the CPP-NPA recruiting. This time it's recruitment at schools.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1969846/cpp-recruitment-detected-in-102-schools-since-2014-pnp-exec |
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) recruitment activities have been observed in 102 educational institutions nationwide since 2014, according to an official of the Philippine National Police (PNP).
At the hearing of the Senate panel on public order and dangerous drugs, PNP’s Directorate for Operations Colonel Randy Arceo also disclosed that 23 of the identified schools have more than one recruitment activity. These educational institutions are:
- Putian National High School
- UP Diliman
- PUP Manila
- UP Manila
- UP Tacloban
- Dr. Luiz Ebaracia National High School
- Hacienda Intal Elementary School
- UP Cebu
- UP Los Baños
- UP Clark
- UP Baguio
- Bicol University
- De La Salle University
- Ateneo de Davao
- WVSU-Calinog Campus
- MSU Gensan
- Isabela State University
- Saint Andres Campus, CSU in Tuguegarao City, Cagayan
- Rosalio Eduarte National High School
- Palawan State University
- Sorsogon National High School
- Manipugol Elementary School in Maco, Davao de Oro
- UP Mindanao
“The Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police have accounted [for] a total of 168 militant students who were recruited by the communist terrorist group. As a result of focused military and police operations and law enforcement operations, 36 died during operations, 41 arrested, and 92 others surrendered,” the PNP official likewise revealed during the hearing.
A quick look at the list presented by Arceo shows that alleged CPP members killed during anti-insurgency operations were purportedly students from UP Diliman, PUP Manila, UP Manila, UP Tacloban, UP Cebu, UP Los Baños, UP Clark, UP Baguio, De La Salle University, Isabella State University, Saint Andres Campus, and UP Mindanao.
The AFP claims that over a period of 10 years the CPP-NPA has recruited 168 students. That is a total of 16 members per year. The numbers they give of 36 dead, 41 arrested, and 92 surrendered adds up to 169 which means all 168 recruits are accounted for.
We are supposed to believe the CPP-NPA is still recruiting on campus despite the AFP saying the CPP-NPA is unable to recruit. Senator Dela Rosa says the perfect recruitment candidate is smart, shy and "angry at the world."
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1969923/dela-rosa-says-cpp-recruiters-target-smart-shy-inflamed-students |
Are you intelligent, shy, and somehow angry at the world? Be warned, as you could be an easy target for recruitment by local communist groups, according to Sen. Bato dela Rosa, quoting information from former rebels.
At the Senate committee on public order and dangerous drugs’ hearing Tuesday, panel head dela Rosa said there is a need for guidance counselors to properly profile their students, noting that certain characteristics are prone to recruitment by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
(You know what, based on those recruiters of the NPA who have surrendered, if you profile your students, you guidance counselors should be good profilers. Profile your students and if you see that they are somehow intelligent, shy, and somehow angry at the world, those are the type of people who are easily recruited to be extremist.)
According to the senator, once a student is recruited to the CPP, he or she will carry firearms and join the NPA.
(That’s why guidance counselors in campuses should identify their students and immediately talk to them. Give them proper counseling because it’s easy for them to get recruited.)
The former chief of the Philippine National Police said recruiters in campuses are skilled when it comes to “picking ripe and low-hanging fruits that may be harvested soon.”
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1963882/only-7-weakened-npa-guerrilla-fronts-remain-says-marcos |
There are only seven weakened communist New People’s Army guerrilla fronts in the country.
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. bared this during his third State of the Nation Address (Sona).
“No guerilla front remains active in our country today, only seven weak fronts to be dismantled, and they are the subject of focused operations,” Marcos said in his Sona.
A weakened guerrilla front means it can no longer implement its programs like recruitment and generating resources for the armed struggle as opposed to active guerrilla fronts, according to the AFP.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has "neutralized" a total of 1,311 New People's Army (NPA) members and supporters in the first seven months of this year."Neutralized" in military parlance collectively refers to the surrender, arrest, and death of insurgent members or supporters due to ongoing AFP and government efforts.
In a statement Tuesday night, AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla said these include 1,121 who surrendered, 97 apprehended, and 93 killed from Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 this year.
"(Aside from this) a total of 728 firearms and 225 anti-personnel mines were either captured or surrendered, and 157 encampments were seized," Padilla noted.
The AFP spokesperson refused to give more details for security reasons.
In the same period, a total of 176 "local terrorist group" (LTG) members were also neutralized -- 124 surrendered, 46 were killed, and six were arrested.
Padilla said a total of 166 firearms and 21 anti-personnel mines were either captured or surrendered, and 10 encampments were seized during military operations aimed against these LTG members.
The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has earlier committed to ending the threat posed by the NPA under President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.'s "Bagong Pilipinas" brand of governance.
National Security Adviser and NTF-ELCAC co-vice chair Eduardo Año said the AFP has been successful in destroying the politico-military component of all the 89 active NPA guerrilla fronts since 2018 when the anti-insurgency body was created under Executive Order (EO) 70.
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| https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1228827 |
The government's Local Peace Engagement (LPE) initiative has led to the surrender of 1,904 communist insurgents in the first half of the year, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said Friday.
In a statement, the anti-insurgency body said these surrendered former New People's Army (NPA) members came from 299 cleared barangays across the country.
The figure comprises 1,266 full-fledged NPA fighters and 638 Militia ng Bayan members.
Meanwhile, Department of National Defense (DND) Undersecretary Angelito De Leon, head of the NTF-ELCAC's Peace, Law Enforcement, and Development Support Cluster, reported that the NPA's strength has decreased to only 1,251 from 24,000 in the 1980s.
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https://mb.com.ph/2024/8/6/lessons-from-marawi-dnd-buying-over-p11-billion-worth-of-helmet-armor-for-army-troops
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Why is the DND only doing this now? More interesting is the admission of "the security situation in the country being under control." If it's under control why worry about recruiting? Especially when the AFP has already admitted the CPP-NPA is weakened to a state they cannot carry on recruitment activities.
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