Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said that the Department of National Defense will hold a dialogue with Metro Manila universities and schools that were included on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s list of schools where the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) are allegedly recruiting students as part of the “Oust Duterte” plot.
In an interview, Lorenzana said his suggestion is for both the AFP and Philippine National Police (PNP) to hold a meeting with the heads of the universities so that they can understand why such a list was released in the first place.
Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana (REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco / MANILA BULLETIN)
“We will have a dialogue. My suggestion to the PNP is that it should be a joint AFP-PNP people that will dialogue with the heads of the universities so that they will understand why we are saying that. And of course, we will understand why they are saying or denying that they are not the recruitment grounds of the CPP-NPA,” Lorenzana said.
When asked if there are more schools to be included in the AFP list, Lorenzana said that will depend on the intelligence reports.
“We will see, we will see. We are still waiting for the intelligence reports to inform us who else (or) what (other) universities are recruitment grounds of the CPP-NPA,” he said.
Earlier, AFP spokesman Brig. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said that the military is reaching out to the Department of Education (DepEd), the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd), and the administrators of some of the schools where the CPP-NPA is allegedly recruiting.
Arevalo made the statement even as he clarified that the list of Metro Manila schools that have been possibly used as venues for arousing, organizing, and mobilizing of students by the CPP-NPA, are still subject of continuing validation.
Arevalo also said that they wish to assuage the fear of the people about this recent development, stating the release of the list was not intended to brand those schools as communists.
“In doing this, the AFP wants to create awareness among our people especially parents who were complaining and asking for our help,” Arevalo said.
He explained that they have reports of concerned parents communicating to them their worries about the “brainwashing” activities that their children were subjected to like film showing; video teleconferencing with a terrorist leader like Jose Ma. Sison; and martial law reenactments during break time of high school students.
“As a good number of us in the AFP are parents ourselves, we join the multitude of parents wary of these creeping indoctrination of their children that tend to draw them into activism and radicalism,” Arevalo said.
“Beware of the wolves in sheep’s clothing. This we caution schools administration and parents about some members of the NPA infiltrating the schools,” he added.
The AFP said at least 18 schools in Metro Manila are allegedly recruiting students as part of their plan to overthrow President Duterte from power.
The universities are University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, UP Manila, Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Sta. Mesa, Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), Dela Salle University (DLSU), University of Santo Tomas (UST), Adamson University, Far Eastern University (FEU), University of the East (UE) Recto and Caloocan, Emilio Aguinaldo College (EAC), Eulogio “Amang” Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST), San Beda University, Lyceum, University of Makati, Caloocan City College (University of Caloocan), University of Manila, and Philippine Normal University (PNU).
The AFP also claimed that there is currently an ongoing film showing about the dark years of martial law in classes to incite students to rebel against the government and incite the resurgence of the First Quarter Storm experience among students while projecting President Rodrigo Roa Duterte as the new “Marcos.
https://news.mb.com.ph/2018/10/11/lorenzana-pushes-for-dnd-pnp-dialogue-with-schools-on-communist-recruitment-tag/
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