Manila, July 6 -- Instead of wasting their time on a "false ideology", communist New People's Army (NPA) combatants who have families should instead surrender and attend to the needs of their children, an Army official said. Lt. Col. Julius Cesar C. Paulo, commander of the Army's 23rd Infantry Battalion (23IB) said malnutrition is common among children in the countryside who are abandoned by parents who chose to fight for the NPA instead of raising their children. "As the Communist NPA Terrorists (CNTs) take away parents in order to fight with their useless ideology, many children suffer hunger and malnutrition due to lack of food. The false revolution of the CNTs force thousands of Filipino children, especially in the countryside, to live ...