CPP-NPA infiltrates 5 Iloilo schools
Youth as future of the nation or future of terrorism? If the message and warning of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is not heeded, it would be the latter.
As such, the AFP here is warning incoming parents and guardians of college students and university administration officials against the planned recruitment of the Communist Party of the Philippines -- New Peoples Army -- National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
Particular targets are freshmen students and transferees of five universities in Iloilo City, five colleges in Bacolod and state universities in the provinces of Aklan, Capiz and Antique.
In a report, AFP's Captain Lowen Gil Marquez, Commanding Officer of the 32nd Civil Relations Unit identified prime Iloilo universities in peril such as University of Iloilo (UI), University of the Philippines in the Visayas (UPV), Central Philippine University (CPU), West Visayas State University (WVSU) and the Catholic University of San Agustin (USA).
Bacolod counterparts in the CPP-NPA-NDF target lists include University of Negros Occidental Recoletos, La Salle University, La Consolacion College, University of San Agustin and West Negros College.
In an interview yesterday, Captain Marquez told The News Today (TNT) that massive student recruitment is aimed at increasing the roster of members who will be placed in communist legal front organizations. Training, Captain Marquez added, is based on radical communist ideologies with the fresh recruits set to become political strategists.
"The student sector is a well-planned recruitment of the CPP-NPA-NDF," the AFP in a news release began. "in order for the student-recruits to prepare for a process on how to advance as radicals by exploiting hallucinated issues against the government based on fascist shortcut Kangaroo Court presentation."
And the Communist think-tanks will use the "Art of Deception" in recruiting students, Captain Marquez continued through the radical group's political warfare propaganda.
"The Armed Forces of the Philippines in Western Visayas will remain vigilant against the Art of Deception of the CPP-NPA-NDF be it in physical or psychological means by using the students and youth sector for the promotion of terrorist fascist communist cause," the news release went.
This, as Captain Marquez tells incoming students, "you must know the truth about the evils of Communism so that it will be your shield in walking to the right path as your hardworking parents wants you to be. And your shield as you try to reach the ladder of success as peace loving and law-abiding citizens towards progress and development for the Greater Glory of God."