PAGWANAWANAN

    PETER LA. JULIAN
    THE CUDIA CASE AND THE DECISION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS


      Not guilty.

     The findings of the Commission of Human Rights in the Jeff Aldrin Cudia Case show there is a need to overhaul or scrap the honor system in the Philippine Military Academy.

     The members of the Honor Committee that ousted First Class Cadet Cudia from the PMA and did not allow him to graduate should be damned because they are dishonest and irresponsible. Now commissioned as officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, they should not be appointed to positions of authority because their reputation is stained. Is there guarantee that they would not go in the way of PMA graduates who have become notorious in their participation in mayhem and corruption?

     The findings also cast a dim view of the kind of persons at the helm of the military academy that earlier approved the decision of disgraced Honor Committee.