From the Philippine News Agency (Feb 20): IPSP 'Bayanihan' a choice of living peacefully or continued armed struggle --AFP
Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) "Bayanihan," which the military is using in its campaign to eliminate insurgency, is basically a choice between living in peace or continued armed struggle and violence, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista on Thursday.
"In this campaign plan, there is a choice between continuous armed struggle, continuous violence, and conflict, killings that we have had for the last four decades, and, on the other hand, peace and prosperity and that's exactly what 'Bayanihan' is," he said.
The IPSP was implemented late in 2010. Its emphasis is to conduct community development missions in areas known to be rebel enclaves, thus depriving the New People's Army (NPA) of a mass base.
The AFP chief said that "Bayanihan" was crafted jointly with civilian stakeholders.
"Bayanihan was crafted not just by the Armed Forces alone but with the help of our civilian stakeholders. We involved our stakeholders in the crafting of this plan for it to be more comprehensive and so that we are able to address all aspects of insurgency and also generate that support," he stressed.
And through "Bayanihan," Bautista said that the AFP, through its peace and development teams, is bringing the message that the government is working for the betterment of the lives of the people.
"Bayanihan teams that are sent in the barangays are tasked to find out the situation there, and to find out what are the issues that the NPA is using to agitate them (the people) to join the armed struggle and hopefully cause a solution to those issues," he added.
"We are a third-world country but definitely we present to them that the solution to our problems is not to kill fellow Filipinos but instead to join hands in the true Filipino spirit of Bayanihan," the AFP chief stressed.
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Internal Peace and Security Plan (IPSP) "Bayanihan," which the military is using in its campaign to eliminate insurgency, is basically a choice between living in peace or continued armed struggle and violence, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief-of-staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista on Thursday.
"In this campaign plan, there is a choice between continuous armed struggle, continuous violence, and conflict, killings that we have had for the last four decades, and, on the other hand, peace and prosperity and that's exactly what 'Bayanihan' is," he said.
The IPSP was implemented late in 2010. Its emphasis is to conduct community development missions in areas known to be rebel enclaves, thus depriving the New People's Army (NPA) of a mass base.
The AFP chief said that "Bayanihan" was crafted jointly with civilian stakeholders.
"Bayanihan was crafted not just by the Armed Forces alone but with the help of our civilian stakeholders. We involved our stakeholders in the crafting of this plan for it to be more comprehensive and so that we are able to address all aspects of insurgency and also generate that support," he stressed.
And through "Bayanihan," Bautista said that the AFP, through its peace and development teams, is bringing the message that the government is working for the betterment of the lives of the people.
"Bayanihan teams that are sent in the barangays are tasked to find out the situation there, and to find out what are the issues that the NPA is using to agitate them (the people) to join the armed struggle and hopefully cause a solution to those issues," he added.
"We are a third-world country but definitely we present to them that the solution to our problems is not to kill fellow Filipinos but instead to join hands in the true Filipino spirit of Bayanihan," the AFP chief stressed.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=617967