MANILA, Philippines—What to do with controversial Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade is up to newly-installed Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief Lt. Gen. Cirilito Sobejana but Parlade might have gone too far in tagging an INQUIRER.net reporter as a Red propagandist, according to Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana.
Parlade is spokesperson of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-Elcac), which got at least P16 billion in funding from the national government.
He is also chief of the military’s Southern Luzon Command (Solcom).
Lorenzana told CNN Philippines on Monday (Feb. 8) that Parlade might have “overstepped” his boundaries.
“Maybe he overstepped…
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