MANILA, Philippines — “The Senate hearing has been reduced to a venue for witch hunting.”
Bayan Muna Rep. Carlos Zarate said this in a letter to Senator Panfilo Lacson, who is leading an inquiry into the alleged red-tagging by military officials.
In the letter informing Lacson that he and Kabataan Rep. Sarah Elago would skip Tuesday’s resumption of the investigation to attend to their duties as House lawmakers, Zarate said that the hearing is supposedly being used by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) to “vilify” them.
“As it is, instead of looking at the deadly effects of red-tagging and terrorist-tagging especially on its victims, t…
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