President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. stated Thursday the army shouldn’t simply be “warfighters” but additionally “peacemakers” amid the brand new method being enforced in opposition to communist rebels.
Marcos made the assertion throughout his discuss with the Army’s ninth Infantry “Spear” Division in Camarines Sur. According to the Chief Executive, the federal government has been providing communists with a “life after their life as rebels.”
“But now, the situation is beginning to evolve. And that evolution means that not only are you meant – they still train to be warfighters and in some occasions you have to go and fulfill your primary mission of defending the people or the communities here in Bicol,” Marcos stated.
“Also now, we are asking you to be peacemakers because we have changed our approach to the communist, terrorist groups that we have been encountering,” he added.
“We are now not only presenting them with a military force, we are presenting them with other options. We are presenting them with a life after their life as rebels,” Marcos stated.
The President additionally acknowledged the position of the whole-of-nation method on the subject of coping with these insurgent teams who need to carry down the federal government by armed battle.
“And now I think even the – although they technically have not abandoned the concept of armed struggle, I think they – efforts of those dissidents had been redirected in another way,” Marcos stated.
“And that’s why your role as the Philippine military continues to be as warfighters, but now there is the additional mission that we are asking of you to be peacemakers,” he added.
In a earlier speech within the Davao area, Marcos acknowledged the position of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in making the realm as “insurgency-free.”
He had stated the legislation enforcement authorities assist in the direction of the anti-insurgency job pressure has improved the residing situations of the residents. — RSJ, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
