On the AMLCs Freeze Order of UCCP Haran Assets

The NTF ELCAC applauds the Anti Money Laundering Council’s freeze order on four assets of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) Haran Center in Davao City for its involvement in terrorist financing.

Haran currently holds indigenous peoples who the CPP NPA NDF allege are victims of “militarization” and “military abuse” in their ancestral domains in Talaingod and Kapalong in Davao del Norte, Kitaotao and San Fernando in Bukidnon, Compostela in Davao de Oro and Arakan in North Cotabato. No such ‘militarization’ nor ‘military abuse’ exist however. This is a lie foisted on our indigenous brothers and sisters to scare them into leaving their homes and entering Haran.

At present there are around 200 indigenous peoples inside Haran (from as high as almost a thousand when this CPP-orchestrated evacuation started in 2013) and around 50 personalities identified with this communist terrorist group-affiliated legal organizations.

CTG fronts inside HARAN are the Pasakaday Salugpongan Kalumunan (PASAKA), the Trade Union Organizers under the Revolutionary Council of Trade Unions, KADAMAY, GABRIELA, SALUGPONGAN, CEGP, NUSP, LFS and KARAPATAN.

UCCP Haran also harbors within its walls personalities with outstanding warrants of arrest- Jong Monson, Jay Apiag and Lindy Trinilla.

The UCCP Haran is therefore the center of propaganda, education and recruitment by the terrorist CPP NPA NDF that have exploited a most vulnerable sector—our