June 09, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) strongly condemns the brazen and arrogant admission by the New People's Army (NPA) that it carried out the killing of another civilian it accused of being a government intelligence asset in Calatrava, Negros Occidental. The statement released by the NPA is more than a mere claim of responsibility. It is a chilling confession. It is a public declaration that the Communist Terrorist Group (

June 04, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) joins the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the entire Filipino nation in mourning the loss of Private First Class John Rey Brasil of the 79th Infantry Battalion, 3rd Infantry Division, Philippine Army. PFC Brasil made the ultimate sacrifice on June 1, 2026, during an encounter with communist terrorist rebels in Barangay Tamlang, Escalante City, Negros Occidental. In confronting th

22 May 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) joins the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) in firmly setting the record straight regarding the April 19 encounter in Toboso, Negros Occidental. The facts presented during the joint national press conference on Thursday lead to one uncontestable conclusion: all the 19 individuals who figured in that incident were all combatants who were killed in

May 26, 2026 The bloodstained truth can no longer be hidden behind propaganda, slogans, and carefully manufactured “human rights” narratives. From 2021 to May 2026 alone, at least 59 documented spy-tagging killings and summary executions perpetrated by the CPP-NPA-NDF have been recorded across the country. Of these, an overwhelming 51 victims were killed in the Negros Island Region — 41 in Negros Occidental and 10 in Negros Oriental. Of the 51 civilians killed by the NPA in

27 May 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) strongly rejects the latest propaganda piece from Karapatan, which once again seeks to distort reality and evade accountability for the tragic fate of individuals who ultimately entered the underground movement and armed struggle. This latest statement bears the unmistakable trademark of the CPP-NPA-NDF ecosystem: deny responsibility, romanticize death, rewrite narratives, weaponize grief, a

21 May 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict respects the recent ruling of the Regional Trial Court in Cebu City which dismissed the terrorism financing case filed against the Community Empowerment Resource Network (CERNET), its officers, staff, and council members. Our courts remain independent institutions of our democracy. Whether favorable or unfavorable to government cases, their decisions must always be respected within the framework of the

May 19, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) expresses profound grief and sorrow over another heartbreaking reminder that the CPP-NPA-NDF does not merely destroy lives on the battlefield—it destroys families, fractures relationships, and leaves emotional wounds that continue long after the guns fall silent. The tragic case of Vince Francis Dingding is not only a story about a young life lost in armed conflict. It is a painful story of

May 18, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) expresses profound sadness over the death of Vince Francis Dingding, a former student leader whose life, talent, and future ended in a tragic armed encounter in Negros Occidental. This comes as another painful reminder of how the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) terror-grooming pipeline continues to trap and consume the very you

May 8, 2026 The preliminary observations of Dr. Raquel Fortun deserve to be received with respect, but also with sobriety, context, and patience. As a forensic expert, Dr. Fortun herself knows the rigor required before any responsible conclusion can be made in a mass-casualty incident: crime-scene processing, cadaver recovery, preservation, identification, autopsy, ballistic examination, chain-of-custody review, witness accounts, operational records, and medico-legal correlat

05 May 2026 The National Security Council fully supports the position of Department of National Defense Secretary Gilberto C. Teodoro Jr. in rejecting any renewed peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines, the New People’s Army, and the National Democratic Front. Sec. Teodoro is correct in saying that to resume a national-level peace negotiations with a clearly spent, isolated, and criminal armed group would not advance the Filipino’s interest in security, peace

May 1, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) welcomes with great enthusiasm the latest security alert issued by the Embassy of the United States in Manila warning its citizens of the dangers posed by the New People’s Army (NPA). This is perhaps the first direct and explicit recognition by the United States government that its own citizens are being drawn into violence by organizations linked to the CPP-NPA-NDF. The advisory is both tim

April 30, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) welcomes the advisory issued by the Embassy of the United States in Manila urging its citizens to exercise caution and avoid political demonstrations such as the Labor Day protests scheduled to take place in Metro Manila and other places on Friday, 1 May 2026. This is a prudent and responsible reminder that while the Philippines upholds democratic freedoms, large public gatherings—especia