NSC discourages red-tagging, vows 'more cautious, prudent' approach to insurgency

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MANILA, Philippines — The National Security Council has reiterated it is turning its back on the practice of red-tagging, vowing instead a “more cautious and prudent approach”  to avoid misunderstanding on the existing laws surrounding the communist insurgency in the country.

 

Speaking at the Pandesal Forum on Friday morning, Dr. Rommel Banlaoi, deputy national security adviser-designate of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict, said they would continue its efforts but with improvements and without controversial red-tagging.

 

“It’s unfortunate that the NTF-ELCAC has that reputation, but the ELCAC is more than the issue of red-tagging. So if there’s anything that should be stopped, it’s the red-tagging,” he said in mixed Filipino and English.

 

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