Archive of NDF-Eastern Visayas

Civilian casualties mere "collateral damage” to JTF Storm air strikes –--NDF-EV
November 07, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today vehemently condemns the Joint Task Force Storm of the Armed Forces of the Philippines for carrying out air strikes near civilian communities in Brgy. Capotoan, Las Navas, Northern Samar in the early morning of October 26. The military’s air strikes which were targeting a unit of the New People’s […]

AFP using E-CLIP for landgrabbing, corruption
October 28, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

In Leyte, troops of the Armed Forces of the Philippines led by 802nd Infantry Brigade commander Gen. Lope Dagoy continue to use the Enhanced Community Livelihood and Integration Program (E-CLIP), the Duterte regime’s program for forced surrenders, to conduct large-scale land-grabbing among poor peasants and corruption of millions of public funds. Gen. Dagoy offers relocation, […]

NDF calls on the people to condemn the worsening human rights situation in Eastern Visayas
October 28, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today called on the Filipino people to unite and stand against the atrocities brought by the US-Duterte regime through the 8th Infantry Division-Philippine Army. “They continue to condone the culture of impunity in the region, while increasing their record of human rights violations (HRVs) in their hope to crush the […]

NDF-EV scores fascist orientation behind PMA hazing and campus militarization in the region
September 30, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

  The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today said the hazing problem in the Philippine Military Academy that recently killed a cadet will not go away but may in fact become widespread through the Duterte regime’s drive to militarize campuses. “Hazing is inherent in the fascist orientation of the military and police that are essentially molded […]

NDF-EV urges youth and students to fight for free education and other democratic rights against the fascist tyranny of Duterte
September 27, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

After getting strident opposition from the youth sector, the Duterte regime’s Commission on Higher Education (CHED) itself proved the sham of the much-ballyhooed “free education” program by stating some students are far more deserving than others to receive government education subsidy. “Duterte’s ‘free education’ is another dirty joke at the expense of the students. The […]

NDF-EV: Widespread killings in Matuguinao prove Duterte is no different from Marcos
September 21, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today exposed the widespread extrajudicial killings and human rights abuses in Matuguinao town, Samar since GRP President Rodrigo Duterte sat in power, as part of his regime’s mass killings of civilians more than any other puppet president. “Elements of the 63rd Infantry Battalion-Philippine Army, paramilitary groups and private armed groups […]

Remembrance and resistance: In solidarity with the march against dictatorship
September 20, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas expresses its solidarity with the demonstrations under the United People’s March Against Tyranny and Dictatorship in Tacloban City and nationwide today for the 47th commemoration of Marcos’s imposition of martial law. These put forward the timely call for people’s resistance and democracy over dictatorship. In particular, the people of the […]

NDF-EV: Privatization of Leyte water services reeks of Duterte-Villar cronyism
September 16, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The slated privatization of the Leyte Metropolitan Water District (LMWD) under the guise of a public-private partnership (PPP) with a Villar-owned corporation reeks of old school cronyism typical of the corrupt Duterte regime, the National Democratic Front said today in a statement. “The Duterte regime’s favoring of former senator Manny Villar, its known crony and […]

NDF-EV condemns AFP’s attacks on local officials as revealing who is the real persona non grata
September 04, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Eastern Visayas today condemned the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Division for attacking or coercing the GRP’s civilian officials and local government units into declaring the CPP-NPA-NDF as “persona non grata.” “We denounce the fascist military led by Maj. Gen. Pio Dinoso III and the Department of Interior and Local […]

NDF-EV commends UP students and supporters for standing up to the fascist and tyrannical US-Duterte regime
August 29, 2019 | National Democratic Front of the Philippines | NDF-Eastern Visayas | Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas | Spokesperson |

The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas salutes the students of UP Tacloban and their supporters who were part of the thousands of students and youth activists across the country who manifested their vociferous opposition to the proposal for state forces to conduct surveillance and militarize their schools. We congratulate the brave and militant Filipino youth and […]