Dr. Maria Natividad Castro(File photo) MANILA - Instead of condemning the arrest of a doctor, who has been identified as a Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) official, the more important issue is how even innocent civilians are being victimized by communist terrorist groups, the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) said Sunday. Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, RTF 6-ELCAC spokesperson, said Dr. Maria Natividad Castro was nabbed in San Juan City on Friday morning on the basis of a legitimate and judicially issued court warrant. "It makes no difference if she graduated top of her class from St. Scholastica's College or the UP-PGH (University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital). Nor does it matter which awards she won. A medical license and an exemplary academic record do not grant anyone immunity from the law," Gonzales said in a statement. RTF6-ELCAC likewise assured the Department of Health and all h
Dr. Maria Natividad Castro(File photo) MANILA - Instead of condemning the arrest of a doctor, who has been identified as a Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) official, the more important issue is how even innocent civilians are being victimized by communist terrorist groups, according to the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) on Sunday. Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, RTF 6-ELCAC spokesperson, said Dr. Maria Natividad Castro was nabbed in San Juan City on Friday morning on the basis of a legitimate and judicially issued court warrant. "It makes no difference if she graduated top of her class from St. Scholastica's College or the UP-PGH (University of the Philippines - Philippine General Hospital). Nor does it matter which awards she won. A medical license and an exemplary academic record do not grant anyone immunity from the law," Gonzales said in a statement. RTF6-ELCAC likewise assured the Department of Healt
CONDEMNED. The site of the roadside encounter where suspected CPP-NPA members engaged policemen and detonated an anti-personal mine in Barangay Bi-ao, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental on Sunday (Feb. 13, 2022). The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict condemned the "senseless violence" calling it a "treacherous attack" for detonating anti-personnel mine aimed at the policemen. (Photo courtesy of Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office) ILOILO CITY - The people of Negros Island should stand up and cooperate with the government to put an end to the local communist insurgency. The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) made the call on Monday following a roadside encounter with suspected members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) and the Binalbagan Municipal Police Station (BMPS) in Barangay Bi-ao on Sunday that injured two policemen and one minor
CALL FOR JUSTICE. Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) spokesperson, Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales said on Friday (Feb. 11, 2022) that the death of two children in Barangay Roxas, Catubig, Northern Samar on February 8 during an ambush by the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) has no justification. Gonzales called on the people of Northern Samar to unite in a common goal of putting an end to the local communist armed conflict. (PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - The Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) has chided the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) and demanded it to take responsibility for the death of two children in Barangay Roxas, Catubig, Northern Samar on February 8. In a statement on Friday, task force spokesperson, Assistant Provincial
Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, spokesperson of the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PNA file photo) ILOILO CITY - Upholding of the constitutionality of Republic Act No. 11479 or the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) of 2020 was one of the finest moments of the Supreme Court. Portions of the law that were declared unconstitutional do not render the ATA ineffective, according to Assistant Provincial Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, spokesperson of the Western Visayas Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RF6-ELCAC) on Friday. "The SC ruling will be remembered in the history of this great nation as the ruling that ramified the single piece of legislation that will usher in a new era of a just and lasting peace for the Filipino people," he said in a statement. Gonzales said Filipinos won over those masquerading as revolutionaries while the five-decade deception of the Communist Party of the Philippines New P