Military official warns Liza Soberano, Catriona Gray on ties with women's rights group
An official of the government's National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTFELCAC) on Wednesday warned actress Liza Soberano on her ties with Gabriela Youth after she participated in a women's talk.
In a statement posted on the NTF-ELCAC Facebook page, Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr. said Soberano “is not an NPA” because she is merely advocating for women's rights. rights online
Parlade, however, also told Soberano to cut her ties with Gabriela Youth.
“Let us not red-tag Liza Soberano. It's not fair to her. She is merely supporting advocacy for women's rights. She has to be protected in the exercise of her rights. Is she an NPA? No, of course not. Not yet. So let's help educate her and the other celebrity targets of Malayang Kilusan ng Bagong Kababaihan (MAKIBAKA), the Underground Mass Organization hiding under Gabriela Women's Party,” he claimed.
“Liza Soberano, there's still a chance to abdicate that group. If you don't, you will suffer the same fate as Josephine Anne Lapira @ELLA, former Deputy Secretary General of Gabriela Youth of UP, Manila and defender of women's rights, even against sexual predators amongst her comrades in the NPA unit she joined which is clearly stated in her handwritten letter addressed to a certain @ EMIL,” he claimed.
Parlade, likewise, issued a similar warning to Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray.
“The choice is yours Liza. And so with you Catriona. Don't follow the path Ka Ella Colmenares (Locsin) took in the underground and NPA Quezon. I am sure Angel Locsin and Neri Colmenares will not tell you this,” he alleged.