Duterte to youth: Shun ‘commie’ ideology

President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday urged the youth to shun and not to embrace communist ideology, saying that “terrorists are trying to destroy our way of life.”

In his speech during the closing ceremony of the 1st Presidential Silent Drill Competition in Manila, the President said that he previously experienced having a communist ideology and asked the youth not to fall prey to the leftist belief.

“Do not embrace this ideology. I realized that nothing else would be good except to have law and order and one government,” said Duterte, who was a student of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison in the late 1960s.

The President’s remarks come after he told the military on Tuesday to put an end to the Filipinos’ problem by crushing criminal syndicates and terror groups including the New People’s Army (NPA).