MANILA, Philippines — After the alleged red-tagging of organizers of community pantries, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto on Friday reminded the country’s counter-insurgency agency to focus on the real “adversary” roaming Philippine waters, instead of targeting the woman who brought to life the Filipino’s bayanihan spirit through her community pantry.
Recto was referring to Ana Patricia Non, the organizer of the Maginhawa community pantry in Quezon City, who was likened by Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), to Satan after saying that she is being probed for her links to the communis…
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