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MANILA – The military officer who warned Liza Soberano about Juventud Gabriela’s alleged communist ties said Friday that the actress’s camp thanked her for the information.
Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr., spokesman for the Government’s National Working Group to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC), said that it is not correct to say that Sovereign’s lawyer and family are complaining about him for labeling in red to the actress.
“In fact, I received a message, a call from Atty. (Juanito, Jr.) Lim yesterday, thanking me and informing me that they are sending me a thank you letter personally for informing them about the nature of this organization, with whom they do not want associate your client, “he told ANC Headstart.
In a statement posted on the NTF-ELCAC Facebook page on Wednesday, Parlade said that Soberano “is not an NPA” because he is simply defending the rights of women.
However, he also told her that “there is still the possibility of abdicating” from Gabriela Youth, otherwise she will “suffer the same fate” as people like Josephine Anne Lapira.
Lapira, a student at the University of the Philippines, was killed in a meeting between the army and the New People’s Army in 2017.
Parlade made the statement a week after Soberano joined a Gabriela Youth online forum as one of the special guests discussing the issues facing girls and young women amid the coronavirus pandemic. With tears in her eyes, she recalled receiving messages of support from fans and even stories of her personal experiences of sexual abuse, after taking the rape comment against her to court.
In a statement Thursday, Soberano’s legal counsel said the actress was simply “expressing her love and respect for women and children” because this is her personal defense.
“Ms. Soberano continues to be apolitical. She does not support or oppose the political views of any person. The important point here is respect for others, a virtue that she has conscientiously practiced all her life,” the statement read.
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