links: http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20140221/singilin-si-aquino-sa-malawakang-disempleyo-at-kahirapan
True face of the 41st IB: Violence and human rights violations
Diego Wadagan
Agustin Begnalen Command (NPA-Abra)
24 February 2014
After the firefight between the NPA and the 41st IB, AFP in Barangay Lenneng, Licuan-Baay, Abra, on February 16, the 41st IB committed a series of human rights violations against innocent civilians while conducting combat operations.
February 19, 2014 –The Bravo Coy, 41st IB led by 1st Lt. De Los Santos arrived in Brgy. Lenneng and conducted warrantless illegal searches of houses and conducted warrantless interrogations. A particular incident involved the Barangay Captain whose entire house was searched, and even his computer illegally searched claiming that the NPA surely left data when they used the unit. The soldiers even confiscated certain properties of the Barangay Captain, which they eventually returned. Similar acts were committed by the soldiers at Sitio Killeng, of the same Barangay.
February 22, 2014 – At about 1PM, soldiers detained Freddie Ligiw at Sitio Patong, a miner and resident of Brgy Sucao. He was illegally detained and interrogated, and was forced to guide the soldiers towards Mt. Inuman. He was then held captive near their swidden farm, while others illegally searched Freddie Ligiw’s nipa hut. The soldiers confiscated a shotgun commonly used by locals for hunting. He was released at 8pm.
These incidents unmasked the never-changing true character of the AFP’s counter-insurgency or “internal security” operations. Illegal searches, interrogation, detention, and intimidation are acts concomitant with AFP operations, that terrorize the populace and are clear violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws, which are condoned by the reactionary civilian government officials.
The people should fight for their rights. These human rights violators should be held liable in civilian courts of the reactionary as well as revolutionary and indigenous courts; international courts could even be tapped as venues. These human rights violations only serve to strengthen the people’s unity, commitment and perseverance against the reactionary government of the ruling classes. Ultimately, the people’s revolutionary unity will be decisive in fighting for the truth and establishing the People’s Revolutionary Government!
Punish the fascist AFP for human rights violations!
Dismantle and evict all detachments and camps of the AFP!
Advance the recognition of the rights of the people through the national democratic revolution!
Agustin Begnalen Command (NPA-Abra)
24 February 2014
After the firefight between the NPA and the 41st IB, AFP in Barangay Lenneng, Licuan-Baay, Abra, on February 16, the 41st IB committed a series of human rights violations against innocent civilians while conducting combat operations.
February 19, 2014 –The Bravo Coy, 41st IB led by 1st Lt. De Los Santos arrived in Brgy. Lenneng and conducted warrantless illegal searches of houses and conducted warrantless interrogations. A particular incident involved the Barangay Captain whose entire house was searched, and even his computer illegally searched claiming that the NPA surely left data when they used the unit. The soldiers even confiscated certain properties of the Barangay Captain, which they eventually returned. Similar acts were committed by the soldiers at Sitio Killeng, of the same Barangay.
February 22, 2014 – At about 1PM, soldiers detained Freddie Ligiw at Sitio Patong, a miner and resident of Brgy Sucao. He was illegally detained and interrogated, and was forced to guide the soldiers towards Mt. Inuman. He was then held captive near their swidden farm, while others illegally searched Freddie Ligiw’s nipa hut. The soldiers confiscated a shotgun commonly used by locals for hunting. He was released at 8pm.
These incidents unmasked the never-changing true character of the AFP’s counter-insurgency or “internal security” operations. Illegal searches, interrogation, detention, and intimidation are acts concomitant with AFP operations, that terrorize the populace and are clear violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws, which are condoned by the reactionary civilian government officials.
The people should fight for their rights. These human rights violators should be held liable in civilian courts of the reactionary as well as revolutionary and indigenous courts; international courts could even be tapped as venues. These human rights violations only serve to strengthen the people’s unity, commitment and perseverance against the reactionary government of the ruling classes. Ultimately, the people’s revolutionary unity will be decisive in fighting for the truth and establishing the People’s Revolutionary Government!
Punish the fascist AFP for human rights violations!
Dismantle and evict all detachments and camps of the AFP!
Advance the recognition of the rights of the people through the national democratic revolution!
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28 YEARS HENCE, THE EDSA PROMISE IS EVER MORE ELUSIVE
Jorge "Ka Oris" Madlos
NDFP - Mindanao
25 Feb 2014
Twenty-eight
years hence, the promise of the EDSA people’s uprising -- the hope for
basic change, for betterment in the lives of the vast majority of
Filipinos -- is year after year becoming ever more an elusive dream.
The regimes of Cory Aquino, Ramos, Estrada, Arroyo and Benigno Aquino
III have miserably failed to fulfil the promise of EDSA because their
selfish class interest dictates that such has never been the intent.
These five successive US imperialist puppet regimes have instead
reversed the initial gains of the people’s uprising, as can clearly be
seen from our political, economic and social realities.
The
promise of broadening democracy has never happened and is neither
forthcoming. The series of elections peddled by the ruling elite as a
hallmark of democracy is, at most, just a way to settle who should hold
the reign in power among the elite and is never meant to truly realize
their jargon of “people empowerment” as deceptively crafted in their
local government code. The would-be success of ending 27 years of
brutal dictatorship under Marcos is nullified by the resurrection to
power of the Marcoses themselves and their henchmen, and the
intensification of repression under such Martial Law copies as Oplan
Lambat Bitag under the Cory Aquino and Ramos regimes, Oplan Makabayan
under Estrada and Oplan Bantay Laya by Arroyo. And now, Oplan Bayanihan,
Aquino III’s dreaded military strategy conducted in the name of
“Internal Security” and the economic interest of his imperialist masters
and the local ruling classes.
What
the people have gained by way of the provision in the Cory Constitution
banning US bases from our soil and nuclear warships from our seas and
shores is totally reversed by her son’s acquiescence to the unlimited
stay and unhampered freedom of US troops to brandish their advanced
weaponry anywhere they like in the Philippines and to continue having
their nuclear-powered warships ply our seas and dock in our ports.
And
where are these “economic gains” promised by the past four as well as
the present US-puppet regimes? Poverty incidence has continued to rise
in spite of their much ballyhooed poverty alleviation programs.
Unemployment according to conservative estimates has risen to 12.7
million Filipino workers. Their bogus land reform has only enriched the
Aquino-Cojuangco clan together with other traditional landed classes. Imperialist-led
multinational plantations throughout the country are fast expanding,
grabbing what land is left among the peasant masses, Moro and the Lumad.
They have never been interested in truly industrializing our country
because their imperialist bosses have not allow that and have bound us
eternally instead as an exporter of raw materials and a consumer of
imperialist products. Worse, our forest, mountains, plains, shores and
seas have been ravaged by the combined plunder of the imperialist and
their local stooges right before our very eyes.
Social services such as health, transport,
electricity, education and other services have worsened and becoming
ever more unavailable to the workers, peasants, youth, women, Moro and
the indigenous peoples, including the elder citizens. Ironically, a
huge chunk of the people’s money goes to unbridled corruption since the
Cory Aquino regime down to the regime of her son – the newly crowned
“pork barrel King”.
Where shall we go from here and what path shall we
follow? Our only road to salvation is revolutionary change through a
people’s democratic revolution that shall immediately build a socialist
system upon victory. Our solution for the peasant problem is agrarian
revolution that shall start from the gradual reduction of feudal and
semi-feudal exploitation until we have mustered the political power to
freely distribute land to the peasants, with a perspective of advancing
this into collective agricultural undertakings. We will industrialize
the country, one that serves to develop hand-in-hand with our genuine
land reform program, while improving the well-being of our worker
population. Our socialist system will ensure the equitable distribution
of our social wealth as well as the availability of basic and higher
education, health care, housing, transportation and other social
services.
We have not achieved all these 28 years after EDSA
people’s uprising, even through the bourgeois periodic election. We
must smash the reactionary government so that a truly democratic
people’s government shall rise up. And this can be done only if we have
the political and military power to do so. It is imperative therefore
for us to strengthen our army, the New People’s Army, and we must build a
broad united front so that the vast majority of the Filipino people
shall, together with their people’s army, dismantle all reactionary
regimes barring our path to total victory.
Although these tasks entail so much sacrifice along
the protracted course of the struggle, we can persevere in this
revolutionary struggle however long and protracted it may take because
this is the only road to our national salvation and democracy.
And as the ruling clique led by Aquino III
celebrates and mocks at the EDSA victory, we shall all together shout in
unison – Down with the US-Aquino regime! Tanggalin sa poder si Benigno
Aquino III, ngayon na!
Long live the National Democratic Revolution with a socialist perspective!
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