Posted to the Kalinaw News (Oct 24, 2020): AFP Statement on LtGen Parlade’s pronouncements pertaining to Ms. Soberano’s attendance to Gabriela Youth Webinar
CAMP AGUINALDO, Quezon City – The AFP Spokesperson statement on Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. pronouncements pertaining to Ms. Soberano’s attendance to Gabriela Youth Webinar, we have three major points to say in this regard:
1) The AFP has the highest respects for women and women’s rights that are also being espoused by Ms. Soberano and Ms. Gray. We even accorded military honors to the former Miss Universe in August 2019 for bringing prestige to Filipino Women and for her advocacies.
2) Recruitment by the CTG from among the students, youth leaders, and influencers is not a propaganda —it is real. Student leaders Lapira; Manalo; et al. who figured and died during Armed encounters with soldiers were testaments to this deadly trail. The fact that Hands Off Our Children came about is a truth to tell.
3) We in the AFP has the solemn obligation to fight & defeat communist terrorists w/c means death from either side. But before we reached that point, we trail our focus on prevention. Hence the effort to inform Ms. Soberano and educate the netizens.
We are not saying that Ms Soberano is a member of NPA, but we are worried that she and her genuine advocacies may just be used by some sectors with reported links to the underground movements in recruiting for the CTG owing to her popularity.
And this sworn duty of protecting our people is what we in the AFP cannot abdicate knowing the stories of many young and idealist student leaders who were dragged into the ranks of the CTG and meeting their untimely death for a worthless cause that is now being rejected not only by our people but by nations all over the world.
And this sworn duty of protecting our people is what we in the AFP cannot abdicate knowing the stories of many young and idealist student leaders who were dragged into the ranks of the CTG and meeting their untimely death for a worthless cause that is now being rejected not only by our people but by nations all over the world.
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