Hands Off Our Children!
Recent events clearly tell us that our youth are facing a clear and present danger.
The CPP-NPA-NDF terrorist group and their allied front organizations are on a recruitment spree targeting our students and our youth.
The recruitment and radicalization of our students by the CPP-NPA-NDF thru their front organizations will eventually lead to these young people dropping out of school and joining the ranks of the CPP-NPA-NDF armed terrorists.
In a few months time, many of these young victims of CPP-NPA-NDF recruitment will end up dead. They will be buried in unmarked graves in the remote areas. Their families will remain unaware of what has become of them.
This is the tragedy that has befallen many Filipino families whose children were taken away from them by the CPP-NPA-NDF.
This is the tragedy that we want to avoid.
We care for your children.
We want them to have a future that is free from any and all forms of hatred, violence, and exploitation.
Let it be known that the CPP-NPA-NDF is the largest human trafficking criminal group in the Philippines.
They wantonly recruit children to become armed fighters for the New People’s Army.
They teach our children to hate, to kill, to lie, to spy, to extort, to destroy, to make bombs, and to turn their backs to everything that is decent and good in a democractic society.
This is how the CPP-NPA-NDF treat our children.
This is how evil the CPP-NPA-NDF is.
This is what happens when we allow our children to join the front organizations of the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Nagsisimula yan sa pa rally rally, mass action dito, martsa duon, cutting classes, teach ins, immersions.
These are acts that eventually brainwash the youth.
It is in this context that,
We call the attention of Parents, of Guardians of our youth,
Be vigilant. Make sure that your children are in school and not on the streets being radicalized by the CPP-NPA-NDF.
We call on school officials and teachers to protect our youth and our children from the deceptive recruitment and radicalization by the CPP-NPA-NDF and their front organizations.
We call on our barangay and local officials, community leaders and elders, protect your communities from the infiltration of the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Together, we can protect our youth from becoming the next unwitting victim of the CPP-NPA-NDF and their front organizations.
In closing, let us say a prayer to all the victims of the CPP-NPA-NDF who died in the local armed conflict, including children who were forced and/or deceived by the CPP-NPA-NDF to take up arms against the government and the Filipino people.
Let us utter a prayer to all the children who now lie in unmarked graves, left alone and abandoned by the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Let us not forget those whose lives were wasted by the CPP-NPA-NDF terrorist organization.
Let us pray for justice.
Let us pray for peace.
Most of all,
pray that your children will be spared from the recruitment and the clutches of the CPP-NPA-NDF and their allied front organizations.
You yourselves may not be ready to answer the question,
What would you do if the CPP-NPA-NDF take your child away from you?
Prosecutor 2 Flosemer Chris Gonzales
Acting Spokesperson for Legal Affairs, NTF-ELCAC
