General vows to expose communist ‘evils’

From Malaya Business Insight (May 4, 2019): General vows to expose communist ‘evils’

THE Armed Forces’ new deputy chief of staff for civil military operations, or J7, yesterday said the communist movement should fear his appointment as he vowed to expose the evils of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army.

Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade, who assumed his new post on Friday, said he would step up an information drive that he said would provide the public a true narrative of what the CPP and NPA really are.

“We will expose the CPP as the greatest scam of the century. They are the reason why our poor remain to be poor. They are the reason why our rural areas remain undeveloped,” he said.

Parlade recently earned the ire of some Metro Manila colleges and universities for describing them as NPA recruitment hubs.

Parlade, a member of the Philippine Military Academy Class of 1987, succeeded Maj. Gen. Danilo Chad Isleta (Class 1985) who vowed out of the service on February 27 upon reaching the retirement age of 56.

“We (military) have to share with the people the correct narrative of everything. The thing is, the people are not yet aware how mischievous the CPP and NPA are… civil military operations will be a big factor (to reverse this),” he said.

He said he would “expose” how the communists “exploited” indigenous peoples, teachers, peasants and other groups just to advance their 50-year-old revolutionary struggle.

He also he would make public how the communist movement has “manipulated international organs like EU (European Union) and UN (United Nations) in order to solicit billions of funding from them.”

He said the communists have been soliciting funds from the EU and the UN through “bogus front organizations.”

AFP public affairs chief Col. Noel Detoyato said Parlade’s new J7 post will help a lot in the fight against the CPP-NPA.

“He commanded units fighting the CPP-NPA. He is well-adept in the fight against the communists...

He takes his work seriously and he does his job 24/7,” Detoyato said, referring to Parlade.

 Parlade was assistant AFP deputy chief of staff for operations (AJ3) when he disclosed last year that 18 colleges and universities in Metro Manila serve as NPA recruitment hubs.

Parlade also served as commander of the Army’s 203rd Brigade based in Oriental Mindoro where intensified operations against communist rebels for a few years until September last year.

He also served as Army spokesman but he was relieved in October 2011 by then President Benigno Aquino III for suggesting that higher authorities should lift government’s ceasefire with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.

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