A government psychiatrist cautioned the military against showing graphic, violent images when conducting anticommunist lectures in schools, saying these could traumatize schoolchildren and adolescents. /PDI
The gathering also discussed a proposal to institutionalize a police bounty for suspected “communist terrorists,” which activists said would fuel more defamation campaigns against innocent residents.
Louise Montenegro, a coordinator of the Kabataan party list and one of the youth leaders who drew up the position paper, said the violent images were part of orientation seminars or forums held in 10 colleges and high schools in Baguio City by the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict in 2022.
Army Col. Christopher Sab-it, head of Task Group Baguio that has been touring colleges and public schools in the city to teach about the “communist threat,” had asked the city’s activists to help remove elements of Red-tagging from the lectures. The lectures of Task Group Baguio, which was assembled in November last year, do not carry graphic images, said Army Lt. Tricia Pascual, who said their anticommunist campaign denounces the New People’s Army’s alleged recruitment of teenagers.
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