THE Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has condemned the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) and the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) after it...
THE Communist Party of the Philippines has condemned the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict and the Anti-Terrorism Council after it declared 16 groups as terrorist due to their “verified and validated” links with the CPP-New People’s Army -National Democratic Front of the Philippines .
“By aiming to terrorize the people, the declaration is part of preparations to steal the upcoming May presidential elections to ensure the victory of the Marcos-Duterte candidates,” he said.are patriotic and democratic and have long been fighting for the rights and interests of their represented sectors.
He said many of the members of these groups experienced difficult struggles during the dark period of martial law. “It is likely that the NTF-Elcac/ATC will be filing more and more trumped-up charges against activists, human rights defenders and critics of the regime, as in the recent case of Dr. Natividad Castro,” he added.