Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon on Sunday said that the basis of the military in linking 18 Metro Manila schools to the alleged ouster plot against President Rodrigo Duterte was wrong.
Recently, about 18 schools were named by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) for being allegedly involved in the Red October plot after reportedly showing films that tackle the Martial Law era.
However, Drilon said that the Martial Law era under the Marcos administration is part of the history of the country, and films related to the event are shown in schools in order to prevent another similar incident.
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“Ang basehan nila ay ang paglalabas ng documentary tungkol sa martial law. Hindi naman po tama iyan,” Drilon said in an interview with dzBB.
(Their basis is which schools had the showing of the documentary on martial law, but that’s not right. That’s wrong.)
“Iyan po ay kasama sa kasaysayan at iyan ay inilalabas sa mga unibersidad para po hindi na maulit ang karahasan doon sa martial law, kaya mali po ang military diyan,” he added.
(That’s part of our history. It’s shown in the universities and school so that the violence during martial law will never be repeated; thus, the military is wrong about that.)
Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of the AFP said on Wednesday that communist rebels were recruiting students from different universities to oust Duterte.
Among the schools included in the list were De La Salle University, Ateneo de Manila University, University of Santo Tomas, and University of the Philippines. /je
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