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(Eagle News) — It’s a “blatant lie.” This was how Interior Secretary Eduardo Año described on Tuesday, Dec. 4, former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo’s claim that Communist rebels were not recruiting minors as fighters. According to Año, such a practice “has been going on for decades.” He noted the police, for instance, has filed five cases against Communist rebels for doing the same this year; in 2017, five cases were filed; and in 2016, three cases […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte backed the arrest of former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo, Rep France Castro and several others, saying the “police did the right thing…” “You know an ordinary person, lalo na kung senador ka, you must be aware that you cannot remove children from one community to another without the consent of the parents..That is actually kidnapping,” Duterte said. According to the President, “they might have been motivated by all […]
(Eagle News)–Former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo on Monday, Dec. 3, denied the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army was recruiting minors. In a television interview, Ocampo said the minors who were with them when the military intercepted them last week were being rescued following the shutdown of a lumad school in the area. According to Ocampo, these lumad schools were being targeted by the military as they are believed to be run by […]
(Eagle News) — The Armed Forces of the Philippines on Thursday, Oct. 4, stood by its remark some schools were being used as venues for “communist recruitment.” AFP Spokesperson Brigadier General Edgard Arevalo issued the statement after some schools–the University of Makati and the University of Sto. Tomas, among others–denied there was such a recruitment in their campuses. According to Arevalo, “we have reports of concerned parents communicating to us their worries about the ‘brainwashing’ activities […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service A military official named on Wednesday, Oct. 3, the schools which Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. earlier said were being tapped by the Communists for the Red October plot. According to AFP Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., these schools were: the University of the Philippines-Diliman, UP Manila, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, Polytechnic […]
(Eagle News) — The “Jabidah massacre” was merely invented by then-Senator Ninoy Aquino in an attempt to destabilize the government of then-President Ferdinand Marcos. This is according to former Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, who had said among the reasons Marcos declared martial law in the country was the formed alliance between the Liberal Party and the Communist Party of the Philippines. Enrile, who made the remark in an interview with former Senator Bongbong Marcos, […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine National Police is looking at the possibility Communist groups were behind the recent explosions in Sultan Kudarat and in Masbate. In a press conference, PNP Spokesperson Senior Supt. Benigno Durana said this was based on evidence they found in the scenes. According to Durana, the orange PVC pipes found were the “preferred materials” of Communist groups in their attacks. Durana said also recovered were “scattered parts of the speedboats.” Earlier, […]
(Eagle News)–Apparently backtracking on his initial statement, Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday, Aug. 21, said it looks like President Rodrigo Duterte will live long to stand trial before the International Criminal Court. Sison made the pronouncement based on a Facebook Live video made by Special Assistant to the President Bong Go after Sison said there were reports the President had gone into a coma since Sunday, Aug. 19. “If the […]
(Eagle News) — Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday, July 24, trashed President Rodrigo Duterte’s third State of the Nation Address, saying it does “not present the true state of the nation.” In a statement posted in his Facebook account, Sison called Duterte a “tyrant” for his statement against human rights advocates who criticize his war on drugs. “True to form as a tyrant, he says brutishly that the […]
(Eagle News)–Localized peace talks have been rejected by local revolutionary groups, the Communist Party of the Philippines said on Wednesday, July 18. In a statement, the CPP noted what it said was the statement of the NPA-Venerando Villacillo Command in Northern Luzon that said that “only the 5th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, armed state forces, intelligence units, local elite and foreign imperialist capitalists would benefit from localized peace talks.” It said the NPA-Celso Minguez […]
(Eagle News) — Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Thursday, July 5, said President Rodrigo Duterte was “driving another nail to completely shut down” peace talks by demanding that they be held in the Philippines. “He knows fully well that the demand to hold talks in the Philippines is unacceptable and unworkable for the (National Democratic Front of the Philippines), unless he thinks the NDFP will be negotiating only to […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, June 21, threw his support behind President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal to hold peace talks with the Communist rebels in the Philippines instead. “To me, it makes a lot of sense. I have actually been asking myself for the longest time why we need a third country facilitator and venue to talk peace with our fellow Filipinos,” Lacson said. According to Lacson, “for one, it entails more expenses.” […]
