29/01/2026
True!
READ | MENSAHE NI CONG. PULONG BAHIN SA PAGHATAG SA SENADO OG PASIDUNGOG SA GITAWAG NGA "HEROES OF EJK"
STATEMENT OF REP. PAOLO “PULONG” DUTERTE
on the Senate giving honor to so-called “heroes of EJK”
What we are witnessing inside the halls of the Senate today is not remembrance—it is selective mourning and convenient amnesia.
They choose to put on display the so-called “heroes” of the EJK narrative, yet they refuse to even remember the SAF 44—men who followed orders, entered hostile territory, and never came home.
No exhibit.
No candles.
No speeches.
Just silence.
They grieve loudly for criminals, yet remain eerily quiet about the real victims of drugs--the children r***d and killed by addicts, the families destroyed by dependency, the communities terrorized by pushers who operated openly while officials looked the other way.
Paano na ang mga pulis na araw-araw lumalaban sa kriminalidad?
Paano na ang mga sundalong nakipaglaban at nagbuwis ng buhay laban sa mga terorista at NPA para ipagtanggol ang bayan?
Sila ba ay hindi karapat-dapat alalahanin?
Hindi ba sila bahagi ng kasaysayan?
Hindi ba sila biktima rin?
Where is the Senate’s outrage for the innocent? Where is the compassion for parents who buried their children because drugs got there first?
This selective empathy exposes the truth:
This is not about human rights—this is about politics.
This is not about justice—this is about rewriting history.
The drug war did not begin in a vacuum. It was born from decades of neglect, corruption, and tolerance—many of them cultivated in the same cities now lecturing the nation about morality.
You cannot condemn the consequences while ignoring the cause.
You cannot honor one narrative while erasing another.
And you cannot claim the moral high ground while standing on the graves of forgotten heroes and ignored victims.
The Filipino people deserve truth, balance, and honesty—not theatrical displays meant to sanitize failure and demonize resolve.
We remember the SAF 44.
We remember our fallen police officers and soldiers.
We remember the innocent victims of drugs.
And we will not allow history to be dictated by those who were silent when it mattered most.
via Congressman Paolo "Pulong" Duterte