Published April 27, 2021, 6:29 PM
Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa on Tuesday, April 27, warned that communists and terrorists will likely benefit if the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is defunded of its P19-billion budget.
Senator Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa supports the retention of the NTF-ELCAC’s P19-billion budget. Officials of the goverment’s anti-insurgency task force are criticized for linking civilians to communist rebels. (Senate of the Philippines)
Echoing Senate President Vicente Sotto III’s view, Dela Rosa said he finds it unfair to to defund the NTF-ELCAC if this was only triggered by the alleged red-tagging of community pantry organizers, specifically of Patricia Non, who organized the first pantry in Maginhawa in Quezon City, by the agency’s spokesperson Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr.
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Press Release
Message of Senator Ronald Bato Dela Rosa for Araw ng Kagitingan 2021
In celebrating today the Araw ng Kagitingan, let us all salute our forebearers who offered their lives at the altar of freedom during the Japanese invasion.
The valor of our heroes, nameless and faceless most of them, who bravely stood and fell in the battlegrounds of Bataan in a gallant effort to defend our flag, is an indelible testimony of our forefathers patriotism and nationalism.
We, Filipinos, remember and honor them today as all nations of the world stand as one in battling the dreaded COVID-19, a disease that has already claimed millions of lives and is continuously wreaking havoc and causing surges of new cases across the globe.
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