Caraga achieves internal peace, security status after over 5-decade insurgency

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IN PHOTO | The Caraga region was declared a state of Stable Internal Peace and Security (SIPS) on June 18 in Butuan City, ending the more than five decades of insurgency.

This historic milestone ended the Caraga’s status as a strategic haven and tactical refuge of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), as it is blessed with dense, mountainous hinterlands and resource-rich ancestral domains.

As affirmation to the peace and development agenda of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr., the ceremonial declaration and pronouncement of a state of Stable Internal Peace and Security in Caraga region was attended by dignitaries, including Undersecretary Angelito De Leon of the Department of National Defense (DND); Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC); and Senior Undersecretary Jonathan Ferdinand Miano of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity (OPAPRU). (RLE, PIA Dinagat Islands)

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