By Mar Gabriel
Eagle News Service
A military official named on Wednesday, Oct. 3, the schools which Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. earlier said were being tapped by the Communists for the Red October plot.
According to AFP Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations Brig. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr., these schools were: the University of the Philippines-Diliman, UP Manila, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, Polytechnic University of the Philippines-Sta. Mesa, University of Santo Tomas, Far Eastern University, Adamson University, University of the East-Recto and UE-Caloocan.
He said included among the schools were Emilio Aguinaldo College, Eulogio Amang Rodriguez Institute, San Beda, Lyceum, University of Makati, Caloocan City College, University of Manila and Philippine Normal University.
“May ongoing film showing sila about the dark years of martial law sa mga class to incite students to rebel against the government, incite a resurgence of the First Quarter Storm experience among students, while projecting (Duterte) as the new (Ferdinand) Marcos,” Parlade said.
He said it was possible the officials of some of these schools were not aware of what was happening.
Galvez had said in a Senate hearing that the Communists were painting the government as a dictatorship, and were using issues such as inflation to persuade the students to rise up against the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
“They are making a lot of information drive wherein they will show high school, even college students, the atrocities committed during the Marcos regime and equate that to the present administration,” Galvez said, without identifying the schools.
According to Galvez, the Communists “have this Operation Talsik and Operation Aklasan wherein they will hold simultaneous labor protests and tactical offensive in far flung areas.”
The Communists have denied there was such a thing as a plan to oust Duterte.