By MANILA – Recent defeats of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Toboso and Cauayan, Negros Occidental have shown the “irreversible collapse of the remaining communist terrorist infrastructure” in the region, a ranking National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) official said Sunday.
These losses, NTF-ELCAC executive director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said, shatters the communist insurgents’ long-running illusion of a so-called “people’s revolution” in Negros.
The defeats exposed what Torres described as a violent movement built on deception, fear, ideological exploitation, and the systematic manipulation of vulnerable sectors,
“But the people themselves have now rendered their verdict. Negrenses rejected terrorism as the path toward justice and reform,” Torres said.
