DAP money used to sow terror
"The government is financing paramilitaries through the Disbursement Accelerated Program and it has cost the lives of many people. Definitely, this is not 'good faith.'"
Despite repeated recommendations and calls both in the country and in the international community, the government continues to prop up the existence and operation of paramilitary groups. Aquino's pork, the DAP, funded paramilitaries and private armed groups through the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. OPAPP received P1.819 billion for the members of the Cordillera People's Liberation Army, under the budget item for the GPH-CPLA Closure Agreement.
These members of the CPLA-turned-paramilitaries were integrated into the 86th Infantry Battalion of the 5th Infantry Division, a notorious unit in Northern Luzon known for a string of human rights violations..
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