NPA ‘totally defeated’ in Negros – NTF-Elcac exec

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MANILA, Philippines – Recent defeats of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Toboso and Cauayan, Negros Occidental have shown the “irreversible collapse of the remaining communist terrorist infrastructure” in the region, a ranking National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) official said.

These losses, NTF-Elcac executive director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said, shatters the communist insurgents’ long-running illusion of a so-called “people’s revolution” in Negros.

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The defeats exposed what Torres described as a violent movement built on deception, fear, ideological exploitation, and the systematic manipulation of vulnerable sectors.