{"id":192450,"date":"2018-12-04T04:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=192450"},"modified":"2018-12-04T04:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T09:13:18","slug":"prrd-defends-police-over-arrest-of-ocampo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/04\/prrd-defends-police-over-arrest-of-ocampo\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD defends police over arrest of Ocampo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in his speech during the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) Luzon Island Cluster Conference at the SMX Convention Center in Davao City on October 22, 2018, reiterates his stern warning to the public officials to avoid getting involved in any illegal activities. RENE LUMAWAG\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday defended the police\u2019s action to arrest former Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo and several others for kidnapping and human trafficking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support the police and the military. You know an ordinary person,\u00a0lalo na kung senador ka<\/em>\u00a0(especially if you are a senator), you must be aware that you cannot remove children from one community to another without the consent of the parents,\u201d Duterte said in a media interview after conferring the posthumous Quezon Service Award on the late senator Miriam Defensor Santiago at the Malaca\u00f1ang Palace.<\/p>\n

Duterte said what Ocampo and 17 others have done \u201cis actually kidnapping\u201d since parents have complained that their children were brought by Ocampo\u2019s group without their consent.<\/p>\n

\u201cEh nagreklamo \u2018yung mga<\/em>\u00a0victims (The victims complained). You heard they were lectured upon by the Lumads. And it\u2019s like controlling the lives of the natives,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIyan ang mahirap sa komunista, ginagamit nila ang<\/em>\u00a0Lumad.\u00a0Kaya ang karamihan ngayon ang namamatay<\/em>\u00a0Lumad (That\u2019s the problem with the communists, they are using Lumads. That\u2019s why many of those killed were Lumads),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said the government has to get back the Lumads and tell them that the New People\u2019s Army (NPA) will destroy them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen they (the communists) started to go to the mountains and wage a war there, they recruited\u00a0ang pinaka<\/em>\u00a0vulnerable (the most vulnerable), the Lumads,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said Ocampo\u2019s Bayan Muna as well as Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) and Gabriela are fronts of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).<\/p>\n

\u201cBakit pa tayo magbobolahan?<\/em>\u00a0(Why we should fool each other?) Satur Ocampo is fronting Bayan. Bayan is a front of the CPP. We know that KMU, Gabriela, they\u2019re all communist fronts or being used by the communists.\u00a0Alam ninyo lahat yan.<\/em>\u00a0(All of you know that),\u201d Duterte told the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will defend my soldiers and my policemen for sure because I think that they are right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The military and police arrested Ocampo and 17 others, including ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro, at a checkpoint in Talaingod in Davao del Norte on Nov. 26 for transporting students of Lumad school Salungpungan Learning Center without permission from their parents.<\/p>\n

Ocampo\u2019s group was released after posting bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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