MANILA, Philippines — Karapatan public information officer Philip Jamilla thinks that the government’s filing of illegal possession of firearms and explosives against human rights activists is meant to portray the latter as terrorists.
During a forum organized by the University of the Philippines-Association of Political Science Majors on Saturday, Jamilla said that the concept of red-tagging is “more than calling someone a communist, more than calling someone a terrorist, more than calling someone a rebel.”
“The intention of red-tagging is to say that human rights activists are actually armed combatants in this armed conflict,” Jamilla said.
“So para sa estado, patunay na…
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