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Several Facebook pages and groups have revived photos in 2016 of a tribute performance for a former spokesperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army at the University of the Philippines Diliman to falsely imply the presence of the underground army on campus.

The photos are from a staged performance held for the late Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal in the University Theater in UP Diliman on March 29, 2016. The tribute was held five years after his death because it was only then that his ashes could be brought to his hometown in Batangas.

A full video of the musical shows actors depicting the armed struggle in the countryside using various props, including toy guns.

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