CLAIM: The Philippine News Agency (PNA) has published two articles dated May 16 and 18 which linked election watchdog Kontra Daya and its convenor UP Professor Danilo Arao to the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF).
PNA’s source of the reports is Jeffrey “Ka Eric” Celiz, the first nominee of party-list group Abante Sambayanan who claims he is a “former cadre” of the Communist movement.
Celiz said Kontra Daya is “a CPP project being used to manipulate electoral public opinion”.
Opinions, instigation of electoral fraud, and party-list manipulation, he added, are among the standard propaganda operation lines of the CPP-NPA-NDF and passed on by Kontra Daya as political analysis.
Celiz also claimed he has “direct personal knowledge about Danilo Arao’s involvement with the CPP-NPA-NDF as among the local communist terrorists’ urban operatives”. He claimed to have met Arao in April 1999 during during a five-day training and seminar-workshop on urban mass movement campaigns and propaganda operations, including the conduct of media operations in urban mass movement activities at a Laguna resort.
The said event, he said, was a joint activity of the CPP Central Committee staff organs, the National Organizations Department and National United Front Commission, where Arao helped facilitate. Similar activities, he furthered, was held in March 2011 in preparation for the May 2001 elections.
RATING: FALSE
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