25/04/2026
The Youth for Peace Movement Davao de Oro has been reflecting deeply on the violence happening around us. The 19 lives lost in the Negros encounter stopped us cold. Moments like this demand more than silence. They demand that we return, with full force, to the very core of why we exist and what we are willing to fight for.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฃ๐ฃ-๐ก๐ฃ๐-๐ก๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐.
That is the truth behind every encounter, every casualty, every young face that never comes home. They do not fight for the people. They consume them. For over fifty years, they have preyed on the young, the hopeful, and the searching, offering them a cause while hiding the cost. They do not tell them about the mountains they will never leave. They do not tell them about the families left waiting. They do not tell them that the revolution they are dying for has never been closer to winning, only closer to needing more bodies.
What happened in Negros was not a research trip gone wrong. Students, outsiders to the area, conducted so-called "Basic Mass Integration" without coordination with any local government unit. Some ended up armed. This does not happen by accident. This is the pipeline. This is how the CPP-NPA-NDF works, through networks that disguise recruitment as education, that call indoctrination "immersion," that inch young people closer to the hills until the line between activist and combatant quietly disappears.
These networks operating in our schools, our organizations, and our communities exist for one purpose, to feed the armed struggle with fresh lives. Every forum that frames armed revolution as noble, every rally that glorifies the NPA, every organization that pulls students away from their futures, these are not advocacy. They are funnels. And the CPP-NPA-NDF has been running them for generations because it works, and because the cost is always paid by someone else's child.
We condemn the CPP-NPA-NDF without qualification. Not because we are told to. Because we have watched what they do to our youth. Because the young people who should be beside us, studying, building, dreaming, are instead buried in mountains or hollowed out by an ideology that was never worthy of their sacrifice. Because they have taken enough.
The Youth for Peace Movement Davao de Oro exists for one reason: to make sure our youth are never handed over to an organization that sees them as ammunition.
To every young person reading this, you are not a sacrifice waiting to be made. Your life, your mind, your future belong to you. No ideology that demands your death has ever truly valued your life.
The CPP-NPA-NDF has stolen enough.
We are here to make sure they do not take one more.
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