National Task Force to
End Local Communist Armed Conflict

February 13, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) has raised alarm over what it described as renewed "terrorist-grooming" operations targeting Filipino youth, following a recent speech delivered by Julieta de Lima before the League of Filipino Students during its 21st National Congress. In a press statement, NTF-ELCAC Executive Director Ernesto C. Torres Jr. emphasized that activism itself is not the issue — but organized efforts to

February 07, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on Saturday denounced the killing of Leonora “Leonor” Anguit, a 74-year-old grandmother, calling the crime a clear case of "spy-tagging" turned into summary execution—a pattern the Task Force says has terrorized civilian communities in Negros. “This was not a robbery. This was not an accident. This was an execution,” said Ernesto C. Torres Jr., Executive Director of NTF-ELCAC. “Leonor

February 05, 2026 NTF-ELCAC MEDIA BUREAU Ref: Dr. Joel M. Sy Egco, DPSSG, MPSA 09155506969 February 05, 2026 From the Countryside to the Cities: NCR now Ground Zero of CPP–NPA–NDF Disinformation With communist insurgency steadily losing ground in the countryside, the battle has decisively shifted to the cities, with Metro Manila now emerging as the primary ground zero of Communist Party of the Philippines–New People’s Army–National Democratic Front (CPP–NPA–NDF) disinformatio

January 22, 2026 The Filipino people have won a decisive legal victory against terrorism and those who finance it, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) declared Thursday. In a landmark affirmation of the rule of law, the Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 45 of Tacloban City, an anti-terrorism designated court, has convicted Frenchie Mae Cumpio and Marielle Domequil for Terrorism Financing under Republic Act No. 10168, while acquitting them

January 6, 2026 The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) said the January 1 series of armed encounters in Abra de Ilog, Occidental Mindoro have starkly exposed how terror-grooming operates on the ground—systematically drawing young Filipinos away from school, family, and civilian life, and leading them toward violence and, in tragic cases, death. In a statement, Usec. Ernesto C. Torres Jr., NTF-ELCAC Executive Director, stressed that while the