AFP wants to end insurgency within 2024
The Armed Forces of the Philippines will focus on ending within the year the country’s armed insurgency problem, as ordered by President Marcos, as the government transitions to external defense.
During an online briefing with the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict on Wednesday, AFP spokesperson Col. Francel Margareth Padilla said the military would “really pursue the elimination” of all 11 remaining weakened guerrilla fronts with about 1,500 fighters nationwide as ordered by Mr. Marcos in January.
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“We really want to end our internal insurgency problem because all of us want to focus on the transition to external defense,” she said. —NESTOR CORRALES
