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Every year on April 9 we honor our war veterans during the commemoration of the Araw ng Kagitingan or the Day of Valor. We remember how Filipino and American soldiers fought hand-in-hand against the Japanese in their invasion of the Philippines in 1942. For 93 days they stood their gr
Published May 4, 2021 5:48pm Despite red-tagging concerns, the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) must not be defunded to sustain its projects for reintegration and barangay development, among others, a defense official said Tuesday. Defense Undersecretary Reynaldo Mapagu, chairperson of Task Force Balik-Loob, E-CLIP, and NTF-ELCAC’s Amnesty Program Cluster, said defunding the controversial task force will “jeopardize the progress we have made over the past years.” “It will also validate the propaganda of the CTG (communist terrorist groups) that the government has forsaken these communities,” he claimed in a statement. P19.1 billion in the 2021 budget has been allocated to the controversial task force, which has red-tagged accused of having communist ties schools, organizations, and individuals.