Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque Jr. (YANCY LIM/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO / MANILA BULLETIN)
To justify the President’s latest directive, Presidential spokesman Harry Roque has invoked the international humanitarian law that upholds the use of force to neutralize enemy combatants in situations of armed conflict. At present, he said the government is dealing with the local communist armed conflict.
“Under IHL po, tama iyong order ng Presidente – kill, kill, kill kasi nga po kapag mayroong labanan, kapag ang kalaban mo may baril na puwede kang patayin, alangan naman ikaw ang mag-antay na ikaw ang mabaril at mapatay (Under the IHL, the President’s ‘kill, kill, kill’ order is right because if there is an armed conflict, when your enemy has a gun and can kill you, you wouldn’t wait to get shot and killed),” he said during a Palace press briefing Monday, March 8.
Published March 8, 2021, 10:43 AM
Gen. Debold M. Sinas, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), said on Monday, March 8, that the region-wide raids against personalities with alleged links to communist rebels is valid, saying the fact that courts have issued search warrants for those operations indicate that they were all legitimate operations.
(Photo from CEGP)
At least 24 search warrants were implemented in the houses and offices of groups that were earlier branded as front organizations of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) in Cavite, Laguna, Batangas and Rizal by joint PNP operatives and local military forces under COPLAN (Case Operation Plan) ASVAL.
Published March 7, 2021, 12:11 PM
This early, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is putting the blame on the Makabayan Bloc in the House of Representatives if the country continues to plunge into economic woes that would, it said, to ‘more suffering’ of the Filipino people.
DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya
(PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
Why? Because according to DILG Undersecretary and spokesperson Jonathan Malaya, they have been consistently opposing the economic amendments in the 1987 Constitution.
“The so-called Makabayan Bloc opposes the lifting of the restrictive economic provisions in our constitution because they adhere to their own so-called ‘national industrialization program’ where the electric, water, mining, oil, telecommunications and transportation industries, among others, are to be confiscated from their owners and taken over by the State as dictated by their obsolete ideology,” said Malaya.
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