MANILA, Philippines—Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Gen. Gilbert Gapay said three hearings at the Senate confirmed what the military has been saying all along—the Makabayan bloc of leftist members of the House of Representatives “serves as spawning pool” of communist rebels.
The Senate has been investigating cases of red-tagging and alleged communist recruitment.
“We may disagree on the way this modus was presented in the past months,” said Gapay in a statement on Tuesday (Dec. 1).
“But we can no longer deny the role that these front organizations had in the destruction wrought upon families and communities by this decades-old violence,” he said.
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