MANILA, Philippines—An investigation into red-tagging is turning into a he said, she said affair after a top security official of the Duterte administration insisted he knew that communist guerrillas were maintaining legal fronts while those he had painted as communist leaders maintained that their activism has no link whatsoever with the communist rebellion in the countryside.
Speaking to reporters after attending a Senate hearing on red-tagging operations allegedly by the military, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Tuesday (Nov. 24) insisted that the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) an…
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