3ID: No more insurgency in Panay by 2022
I L OILO C i t y – The insurgency in Panay Island would have been quelled already when President Rodrigo Duterte ends his six-year term on June 2022, according to the Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID).
T h e d e c a d e s - o l d armed struggle i s being addressed through t he “concerted efforts” of both t he national and l ocal governments, sectoral groups and the people of Panay, said Major Cenon Pancito III, 3ID spokesperson.
“All the concerned agencies and t he people should participate to achieve and maintain peace and order in
nation approach” in ending the local communist armed conflict through the creation of a national t askforce that will take the lead in institutionalizing a national peace framework.
Records of the 3ID showed 49 villages in Panay Island yet to be “cleared” out of 241 barangays in Aklan, Capiz and
Iloilo provinces determined by the 3ID to have “insurgency affectation” since 2016.
The province of Antique was cleared of insurgents in 2018 yet.
Panay Island has a total of 3,111 barangays.
“The 3ID i s making headways accomplishing its marching order to finally put
an end to the more than f ive decades of f i ghting i nsurgents i n i ts area of operation with the current mindset of addressing the root causes,” Pancito said, referring to “social issues”.
The whole- of- nation approach in ending the local armed conflict is the best of the solution, he said./