To gather funds to be used in their efforts to bring down the government, some front groups of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army (CPP-NPA) are masquerading as relief organizations.
This was bared by Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) deputy chief-of-staff for civil-military operations, in a message to the Philippine News Agency Monday.
He cited as example "Panday Bolig" as part of groups allied with the communist movement, which used such tactics during the aftermath of typhoons "Yolanda" and "Pablo".
"These front organizations appeal to the kind-hearted especially in Canada and US, Europe, Australia etc., but only a portion are spent for the actual rehabilitation. According to revelations of former rebels and organizers, a good 60 percent of the solicited funds go to the CPP. Only 40 percent are spent for (rehabilitation), if at all. Reports from California Filipino Communities last November 2018 said that their donations went unaccounted during the onslaught of 'Yolanda' for instance," Parlade added.
"In the Visayas, they use CERNET (Community Empowerment Resource Network) as the CPP clearing house of all these fake advocacies. We saw this pattern earlier in the past but it’s only now that we had solid evidence after the series of engagements we had with EU and some European governments. In the days to come we will expose the other 'miracles' the CPP have been doing. This is just the tip of the iceberg," the military official said.
With these developments, Parlade said these front groups are in panic mode, prompting them to highlight and even distort issues like "massacre" in the case of the legitimate police operations in Negros Oriental, killing of IPs (indigenous peoples) by CAFGU (Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit) even if CAFGUs (are) not involved, and hype those killed in the drug war for two reasons.
He said these reasons include the establishment of a "consistent pattern of gross, flagrant, or mass violations of HR" so CPP founder Jose Maria "Joma" Sison can invoke Article 8, Paragraph 2 of UN General Assembly Resolution 47/133 and non-refoulement (he can't be extradited if there is still danger of state persecution because of these "alleged" conditions in Philippines) and to justify foreign funding and support for Human Rights Watch, fact-finding missions etc.
"The SOS (Save Our Schools), Bakwit, EJK, bombing threat to Salugpungan, killing of lawyers, all based on fabricated reports and lies, are all designed to keep money from EU (European Union) coming. We will continue to expose their deception strategy with the truth we are equipped with now. Are we not wondering none of them is taking the challenge?" the military official added.
Parlade said these funds from NGOs are what they use in recovering lost ground, even without their armed groups.
"These funds were used to organize their mass base, with livelihood projects that promote the CPP and highlight the neglect of government, rather partner with government to develop the countryside," he added.
The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1066191
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