NEWS

AFP forms fact-finding committee for missing labor activists

News Blog 08 October 2022

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City—The AFP created a fact-finding committee that will “conduct speedy, comprehensive, and exhaustive investigation” on the continued disappearance of labor activists Elizabeth Magbanua and Alipio Juat.

This was done through a letter directive dated October 5, 2022, which is one of the AFP’s actions in compliance with the Petition for Writ of Amparo filed by the relatives of the missing persons before the Supreme Court and granted by the Court of Appeals in a decision on September 9.

AFP submits thousands of CTG human rights abuses to CHR

News Blog 06 October 2022

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City— The Director of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Center for Law of Armed Conflict (AFPCLOAC), BGEN JOEL ALEJANDRO S NACNAC PA submitted on October 6 (Thursday) thousands of recorded Communist Terrorist Group's (CTG's) human rights abuses to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR).

Chairperson Hon. Richard P Palpal-Latoc received the list of 2,443 Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) Human Rights (HR) abuses from CYs 1968 to 2009, and resubmitted HR/IHL CTG violations covering 2010 to 1st Semester 2022.

AFP, DND turnover lots to Cebu Government

News Blog 04 October 2022

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) turned over 16 parcels of lands back to the Cebu Provincial Government in a ceremony held Monday, October 3.

The AFP Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Bartolome Vicente Bacarro and DND Senior Undersecretary and Officer-in-Charge Jose Faustino Jr graced the event at the Capitol Social Hall in Cebu City.

AFP, humanitarian group formalize cooperation

News Blog 04 October 2022

CAMP Aguinaldo, Quezon City—The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Mindanao Humanitarian Volunteers for Peace Inc., (MHVP) formalized through a Memorandum of Agreement an ongoing partnership that delivers services in remote and conflict-affected communities in the country.

The agreement was signed on Monday, October 3, at the AFP General Headquarters by The Deputy Chief of Staff, AFP VAdm Rommel Anthony SD Reyes on behalf of the AFP Chief of Staff, and MHVP President Dr. Maria Theresa Heyrosa.

OPAPRU, AFP highlight gains, future plans on peace process

News Blog 30 September 2022

CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City - The Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity (OPAPRU) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) highlighted the significant developments on various peace tables during the OPAPRU-AFP Peace Symposium held Thursday, September 29 in Camp Aguinaldo.

Among those discussed are the government's peace accords with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Cordillera Peoples Liberation Army (CPLA), and other peace-inclined groups including ending the local communist armed conflict in the country.