2 former NPA members to attend Senate hearing on ‘missing students’

Two former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) are set to attend Wednesday's Senate hearing on the missing students allegedly recruited by leftist organizations.

Senator Ronald dela Rosa, chairman of the Senate Public Order and Dangerous Drugs Committee, said he would "interrogate" the two former NPA fighters to shed light on the fate of the students who left their home to join Anakbayan.

Resource persons from the Philippine National Police, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Department of Social Welfare Development, Commission on Human Rights, Office of the Solicitor General, Commission on Higher Education, Department of Education, Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Far Eastern University, and University of the East, and the parents of the recruited minors were also expected to be present during the hearing.

Representatives of Kabataan, League of Filipino Students, and Anakbayan were also invited to attend the hearing.

Dela Rosa reiterated that if leftist groups could recruit minors while inside the campuses, the government should also be able to perform it's own "indoctrinations" in these campuses.

“Meron kasi silang polisiya, ang mga paaralan na ito, which is very detrimental on the part of the government na bawal daw pumasok ang mga pulis o military sa loob ng kanilang campus para ma-avoid ang militarisasyon…they are using government resources and yet they are producing enemies of the state so dapat ma-correct ito,” he said

“Mas legal ang ating government instrumentalities so dapat bigyan din ng kalayaan ang ating kasundaluhan at kapulisan na makipag halu-bilo, magbigay ng kuru-kuro sa mga estudyante sa loob,” he added. — DVM, GMA News