Tuesday, 28 December 2010 00:00
THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is optimistic that the decades-old communist insurgency in the country will be defeated before the end of the six-year term of the Aquino administration in 2016.
The chief of the AFP Public Affairs Office (PAO), Lt. Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos, on Monday claimed that many members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines and the National Democratic Frong (CPP-NDF), have expressed their desire to leave the underground movement and return to mainstream society.
According to Burgos, this wish was evident in two separate incidents in Mindoro Occidental and Cagayan de Oro City wherein NPA rebels said that they will surrender after the 18-day suspension of offensive military operations (SOMO) against the CPP-NPA that took effect on December 16. .... MORE
Source: Manila Times
URL: http://www.manilatimes.net/index.php/top-stories/36416-npa-insurgency-gone-by-2016--military
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