NTF-Elcac exec: NPA soon an insignificant threat

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Saying the New People’s Army (NPA) would soon become an “insignificant threat,” the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) on Wednesday renewed its call for its members to surrender.

Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., NTF-Elcac executive director, told the NPA’s “remaining, depleted forces” to “embrace the opportunity to move forward.”

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“We call on them to heed instead the call of the times and begin the new year with a focus on peace and development,” he said in a statement.

State forces, he added, have dismantled 88 out of 89 NPA guerrilla fronts and the government will continue to take down its financial and material support. —NESTOR CORRALES