The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) backed the proposal of Interior Secretary Eduardo Año to restore the law-making subversion a criminal offense.
Earlier, Año, a former AFP chief of staff, stressed that this should be taken into consideration following reports disclosing that 500 to 1,000 youths were recruited annually by communist rebel groups.“Dahil nga po [ito] sa nakikita natin na patuloy na pag-re-recruit ng mga menor de edad buhat sa mga eskwelahan na mga grupo na may leaning sa communism, sa mga students pa po,” Brigadier General Edgard Arevalo, AFP spokesperson, said in a media briefing Wednesday.
Arevalo also recalled the slain students from the University of the Philippines Manila and Los Baños who allegedly joined the NPA. The two separate clashes transpired in Laguna on February this year and in Batangas last November 2017.He said communism, in its pure sense, is not a crime. But the context becomes “different” once applied in the Philippines.
The communist rebels were also considered as terrorist groups abroad such as the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, among others, because of the use of arms and violence in overthrowing the government, Arevalo added. Based on intelligence reports, Año also said the indoctrinated youths are trained to be fighters or made as militant student leaders in their respective schools.
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