Tag: Colmenares state-sponsored killings

Palace calls Colmenares’ recent claims vs gov’t “baseless, laced with malice”

(Eagle News)–Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Friday, Aug. 2, dismissed as “baseless” and “laced with malice” Bayan Muna chair Neri Colmenares’ remark the recent killings in the country, including the ones in Negros Oriental, were state-sponsored. In a statement, Panelo said Colmenares’ remarks were “but a part of the propaganda of the Communist Party of the Philippines [CPP], to which obviously he subscribes and parrots, to discredit the administration and the security forces of the […]