New Philippine Security Adviser Urges End to ‘Red-Tagging’

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Philippine incoming national security adviser Clarita Carlos (L) and President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. © BBM Media Bureau The incoming national security adviser to Philippines’ President-elect Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says she intends to stop “red-tagging,” the longtime counterinsurgency tactic in which leftist activists and critics of the government are accused of being members of the communist movement. “I would like to stop red-tagging,” Clarita Carlos, a former University of the Philippines professor, said on Friday. “Labels do not produce anything. It’s not productive.”…

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