By JOVILAND RITA, GMA News
Published February 9, 2021 11:33am Armed Forces Southern Luzon Command chief Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. on Tuesday admitted that there are gaps in the intelligence operations of the anti-insurgency task force due to lack of enabling laws. Parlade, spokesperson of National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), said the security sector cannot rely on the Human Security Act as he justified the need of the Anti –Terrorism Act of 2020, which is now being challenged before the Supreme Court. “First of all, we don’t have that enabling law to really help the security sector do their job. We cannot rely on that Human Security Act,” he said in an interview on ANC.
UP lauds Lorenzana s move to sack military intel chief from post
Published January 29, 2021 2:48pm
Updated January 29, 2021 2:55pm The University of the Philippines on Friday expressed appreciation to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana s move to remove Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Major General Alex Luna from his post due to an erroneous list of suspected communist rebels killed by the military. We in the University of the Philippines express our appreciation for Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s decisive action in relieving Major General Alex Luna of his position as Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence following the publication of a list of alleged members of the New People’s Army (NPA) killed by state forces an erroneous list that included members of the UP community who were neither members of the NPA nor slain by state forces, UP said in a statement.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana has ordered the relief of Armed Forces Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence Major General Alex Luna after an "erroneous list" of alleged members of the New People's Army killed by the state forces was published.
“I cannot fully accept it dahil it was hardly an apology to begin with,” Padilla said when asked to clarify his response. “Sabi ko nga, parang jinustify pa nila na may inconsistency… Kapag sinabi mong inconsisteny parang sinabi nila 'Nagkamali lang ako ng kaunti. Hindi pala NPA, CPP pala. 'Yun 'yung inconsistency',” he added.
A unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) apologized Monday for publishing on its social media page a faulty list containing the names of former University of the Philippines (UP) students who allegedly joined the New People's Army (NPA).