“The National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict is a "very successful" endeavor of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in reducing the numbers of the New People's Army and the Communist Party of the Philippines.”
What Vera Files found
The NTF-ELCAC is a multi-agency body created through Executive Order 70, which Duterte signed in 2018, under the Office of the President, not the AFP. The AFP chief of staff is one of at least 20 members of the task force, which was intended to implement the government’s “whole of nation” approach in addressing the root causes of insurgencies.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 20 November 2023. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 29 November 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Rodrigo Duterte has 126 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 46 of them false or fake, 78 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QPKgK2UDr0
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