MANILA, Philippines—The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) on Friday (Nov. 27) strongly denied it was recruiting children as combatants for its armed wing, New People’s Army (NPA), as the military claimed in a report.
“The claims of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) of more than 500 children recruited as NPA combatants are completely false,” said CPP information officer Marco Valbuena.
He said the AFP report was “as false as the AFP’s claims of thousands of NPA” guerrillas who surrendered. Valbuena said the number of those who surrendered, according to the AFP, exceeded the military’s own estimate of active guerrillas.
He said NPA pr…
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