THE National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac) was offended by the United Nations Special Rapporteur Irene Khan's proposal to abolish the task force, its official said on Saturday.

"We were hijacked. Irene Khan's visit to the Philippines is counterproductive. She was invited here for a different purpose," NTF-Elcac Executive Director Undersecretary Ernesto Torres Jr. said.

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