MANILA, Philippines — The recent red-tagging of progressive lawmakers and some celebrities is “calculated” to secure more funds for the military’s campaign against perceived insurgents and terrorists, Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman said Thursday.
“Red-tagging appears to be relentlessly pursued by military officials to justify the retention of the recently formed National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) which has a huge budgetary outlay of close to P20-billion and has been labeled as the ‘military’s pork barrel’,” Lagman said in a statement.
Lagman said the move is “reminiscent of the military’s foisting the paranoia of ‘budgetary Huks’ back in the 1950s and 1…
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