MANILA, Philippines — Suggestions to defund the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) is not the right action and answer to complaints of red-tagging, Leyte 4th District Rep. Lucy Torres-Gomez said on Monday.
According to Torres, critics of the anti-communist task force must remember that the country is “in the same boat” during the COVID-19 pandemic — and that cutting off funding to NTF-ELCAC would cripple the government’s anti-insurgency drive.
This was despite her acknowledging that red-tagging organizers of community pantry, an initiative to source donated food products for poor families, may lead to pantries being unable to feed hungry c…
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