Suicide no way to save the AFP
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
An institution such as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), can hardly be saved from its corruption by a general’s suicide. It could perhaps have been saved by a general and others so placed in the military by living and testifying to the truth on the corrupt practices, instead of dying, although too many in the AFP these days have been coming up with the spin that former AFP Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes’ suicide was his way of saving the AFP, which is quite illogical, because one does not save the institution by bringing its secrets with him to the grave.
One does not save an institution such as the Philippine Military Academy, where most, if not all, the generals — who make up the brass in the AFP and the Philippine National Police — come from, by abolishing it, but neither is the PMA going to be saved by being much too soft on it and its graduates who end up being swallowed by the mire of corruption that is all over the AFP..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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