Manila, Sept. 3 -- The government task force on communist insurgency on Wednesday called for a united action against "corruption of the mind," which it described as the "most insidious form of corruption."

"Corruption manifests in many ways: the theft of public resources is a grave betrayal, but so too is the corruption of values that normalizes violence as a tool for change and dismisses dialogue as weakness," Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr., executive director of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), said in a statement.

"Both erode the foundations of our nation."

Torres issued the statement as the country celebrates September as National Peace Consciousness Month.

"This Peace Month, the NTF-EL...