Published on: Monday, December 14, 2020
By: PNA
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MANILA: Admitting that the issue of “red-tagging” is a very serious concern that has to be properly explained, a Palace official said it was Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria “Joma” Sison himself who red-tagged militant organisations and individuals.
In a virtual presser on Dec. 11, Undersecretary Severo Catura
(pic), Executive Director of the Presidential Human Rights Committee Secretariat (PHRCS), said the government “has never red-tagged anyone.”
Catura said various statements associating some organisations and individuals to the communist movement were based on the pronouncements of Sison in a video during a meeting at the International Centre, CIC in Brussels, Belgium on March 4, 1987.
NDFP claims Duterte admin will red tag progressive individuals, groups abroad By ANNA FELICIA BAJO, GMA News
Published December 14, 2020 9:15am
Updated December 14, 2020 10:32am The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) has claimed that the Duterte administration, through the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), will export its terror activities in other nations, particularly in North America and Europe. In a press statement dated December 12, the NDFP International Information Office said the present administration is supposedly planning to establish NTF-ELCAC cells in North America and Europe to undertake surveillance and red-tagging of progressive compatriot organizations, foreign solidarity friends and entities, anti-Duterte individuals and personalities, especially open leaders of the NDFP and its peace panel.
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