He added that these former NPA members risked their lives and their families for coming up with their exposè during the Senate hearing where they all took an oath, to tell the truth. (PNA file photo)
MANILA – A ranking official of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) lambasted the pronouncements of Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG) chairperson Chel Diokno that President Rodrigo R. Duterte’s persistent red-tagging claims against Bayan Muna Party-list Rep. Carlos Isagani Zarate are “baseless and malicious”.
In a statement forwarded to the Philippine News Agency (PNA) Friday, Southern Luzon Command (SOLCOM) chief, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr., said FLAG and Diokno did not pay attention to the testimonies of former rebels in the Senate hearing who consistently identified party-list members as affiliates and allies of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA).