Senators on Monday demanded that the Philippine military sanction those involved in the release of an erroneous list of students who allegedly became New People's Army members.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday said that the Armed Forces of the Philippines will apologize to a lawyer whom they included in a list of supposed members of an armed rebel group.
By JULIA MARI ORNEDO, GMA News
Published January 24, 2021 8:55pm
Updated January 25, 2021 11:31am The chancellor of the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman on Sunday decried the “baseless” red-tagging of several alumni by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo said the AFP’s list of “UP Students who became NPA (Dead or Captured),” which was posted then deleted on the AFP Information Exchange Facebook page, named several esteemed professionals. “It is unthinkable that despite the millions of taxpayers’ money poured into military intelligence, the AFP is making such baseless accusations, in the process violating the civil liberties and putting at risk the lives of responsible citizens who are actively contributing to nation-building in their chosen professions,” he said in a statement.
Military apologizes for inconsistencies in list of students who are allegedly NPAs
Published January 25, 2021 5:57am
Updated January 25, 2021 6:44am The Armed Forces of the Philippines Civil-Military Operations Office (J7) apologized on Sunday night for inconsistencies in the list of students who allegedly joined the New People s Army which it posted recently. We sincerely apologize for those who were inadvertently affected by inconsistencies regarding the List of Students who joined the NPA (Died or Captured) that was posted in the AFP Information Exchange Facebook account, it said in a statement posted on its Facebook page. That article has since been immediately taken down or deleted from our social media accounts, it added.