(Eagle News)–The Armed Forces of the Philippines is eyeing dismantling the 11 “weakened” New People’s Army guerrilla fronts by the end of the year, National Security Adviser Eduardo Año said on Thursday, April 4.
According to Año, “this will also include dismantling 26 vertical units and party organs within the 27 sub-regional committees and 40 regional party committees.”
AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said because of these targets, “halos everyday nagkakaroon po tayo ng mga armed encounters not just between the (AFP) and the members of the (NPA) but also with local terrorist groups.”
“And once the AFP successfully ends the communist insurgency, it can consolidate all its forces to solely external defense,” he said.