MANILA, Philippines — “Undue public propaganda” caused by controversial pronouncements of Southern Luzon Command chief Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. is “damaging” to the integrity of the Duterte administration’s anti-insurgency task force as well as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).
This was the observation of the Senate defense committee, which issued a 66-page report on its investigation of the so-called Red-tagging activities by the military. The report was dated February 22 and posted on the Senate’s official website on Wednesday.
“It bears emphasis that ‘personal opinion’ [does] not absolve Gen. Parlade from his lack of sense of responsibility and negligence in i…
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