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ATC eyes stronger counter-terrorism policies
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NTF-ELCAC execs warn vs. 'terrorist youth grooming'
MANILA – The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) on
NTF-ELCAC Executive Director, Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., issued the warning following a speech delivered by Julieta De Lima, Chair of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, before the League of Filipino Students during its 21st National Congress early this week.
Torres said the speech went beyond discussing social issues and affirming the framework of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and even intensified recruitment on campuses, and situated student organizing within the broader structure of the Communist Party, the New People’s Army (NPA), and allied underground networks.
While emphasizing that activism is not the issue, he said efforts to channel students toward armed struggle cross a dangerous line.
“Let us be clear: activism is not the issue. Debate is not the issue. Criticism of (the) government is not the issue. What concerns us is the open call to intensify recruitment and strengthen structures aligned with a movement that has long pursued armed struggle against the democratic State," he said.
Torres noted that when young people are "systematically conditioned and directed toward violent revolution, that is terrorist-grooming."
“These are not abstract ideas. They form part of a decades-old revolutionary blueprint. The insurgency does not begin in the mountains. It often begins in classrooms – through ideological consolidation, study circles, and gradual conditioning,” he said.
Torres also said former NPA members have repeatedly testified how recruitment pipelines start with exposure to seemingly ordinary campus activism before progressing into structured underground participation.
“What appears to be harmless organizing can evolve into a deliberate pathway toward armed engagement,” he said.
"That is not spontaneous activism. That is structured cadre-building. That is terrorist-grooming.”
The NTF-ELCAC official also expressed particular concern over reports of organized recruitment targets, formation of “squads” of prospective members, and systematic campus expansion efforts. (PNA)
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