There
are still a lot of things to do.
This
is the call of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Nica) Director
General Alex Paul Monteagudo,
Despite
a giant setback by the insurgents , the government has not yet dealt a blow in
the propaganda machine by the leftist movement in the country, which is
considered longest surviving in Asia.
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| National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (Nica) Director General Alex Paul Monteagudo (photo credit to owner) |
“They
(communist rebels) are still using Marcos propaganda. They no longer apply but
they are effective. They are good at it and we are at a loss,” NICA Director
General Monteagudo said of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s
Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines (CPP-NPA-NDFP).
Monteagudo
in a meeting with the editors and reporters of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
(PDI), said the government was launching its own information campaign aimed at
bringing in everyone, particularly mainstream media.
Propaganda war
“We have to tell everybody
the truth because if not, people will always be in the dark [as to what the
CPP-NPA-NDFP is doing],” he said.
In expediting the end of the red movement, government is studying the NPA’s propaganda techniques “because they are the most efficient and effective in that area.”
“If there is an area where we are losing against the CPP-NDFP-NPA, it is in the arena of propaganda,” the Nica said in a PowerPoint presentation.
In expediting the end of the red movement, government is studying the NPA’s propaganda techniques “because they are the most efficient and effective in that area.”
“If there is an area where we are losing against the CPP-NDFP-NPA, it is in the arena of propaganda,” the Nica said in a PowerPoint presentation.
The Nica
added that “the CPP-NPA-NDFP has exploited and deceived our people for 50 long
years.”
“They
have made our people believe that changing our present system of government is
the only way to address the ills that supposedly plague our society,” it said.
Foreign funding
Moteagudo
says that the communists rebels get 60% of funding from Non-governmental
organizations (NGO’s), which are all legal fronts of the CPP-NPA-NDF, from
foreign governments most specially from the European Union.
“Not all
NGOs are front organizations but there are a lot, as in overwhelmingly a lot of
NGOs,” he said.
“Not all members [of the groups] are members of the underground movement, but they get mixed up together without them knowing … Some of their members are invited [by underground members calling for armed struggle] for deeper learning, political education. They are different, but not separate because they are ran by the CPP-NPA-NDFP,” he said.
“Not all members [of the groups] are members of the underground movement, but they get mixed up together without them knowing … Some of their members are invited [by underground members calling for armed struggle] for deeper learning, political education. They are different, but not separate because they are ran by the CPP-NPA-NDFP,” he said.
While the
NPA-CPP-NPA had only less than 5,000 (only about 3, 790) regular fighters “the
damage they inflict on government and bureaucracy and economy is such that we
cannot prosper.”
Half of
those are numbers are from the indigenous people, who were targeted for
recruitment as fighters or as mass support base.
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