links: http://theprwcblogs.blogspot.com/2014/05/video-resist-edca.html
On the baseless allegations and malicious innuendoes hurled at me by the AFP and their patrons
Roy Erecre (ND978243 under the assumed name Vide Alguna)
NDFP Consultant for the Visayas
14 May 2014
Bohol District Jail (BDJ) in Cabawan
District, Tagbilaran City
Let me convey my gratitude for the opportunity to respond to baseless allegations and malicious innuendoes hurled at me by the AFP and their patrons.
Immediately after abducting me in my hometown, this government has kept me incommunicado by transferring me from one detention cell to another across the seas until finally jailing me in Bohol where I once studied and then learned the necessity and worked for the realization of a systemic revolution. In the crucial time following my abduction, government agents denied me the right to counsel, as they interrogated and threatened and manhandled me. While locked up from public scrutiny, I was accused of trumped-up charges and misrepresented as guilty felon through trial by publicity.
I didn’t know then that having medical treatment with one’s family physician translates to “island-resort hopping” of sorts in military mind, and that either constitutes a crime. I and my aide were just surprised that morning of May 7, 2014, when intelligence operatives pounced on us while on our way for my follow-up check up for diabetes.
During my arrest, I was robbed of my personal belongings. Until now, my phone, journal, and flash drives haven’t been returned.
All these because of my being a consultant to the peace panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in its peace negotiations with this government. It is a role I have taken since Cory Aquino opened peace overtures after the EDSA Revolt. Then and now, the duplicity of this government at feigning negotiations in order to gather intelligence information against its perceived enemies has reached scandalous heights.
Instead of respecting the agreements it signed with the NDFP, this government is instead preoccupied in emasculating each one, especially the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). In fact, there are now 169 victims of extra-judicial killings nationwide since the beginning of Aquino’s presidency, as documented by KARAPATAN. This year alone, 19 human rights defenders were executed by government agents, including veteran people’s lawyer and comrade Noel Archival. There has also been continued crackdown on those involved in the NDFP’s peace panel. Just weeks before, a similar, bare-faced attack on fellow NDFP peace consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon was carried out in Cebu.
This travesty justice and its own due processes, however, serves only as this government’s own undoing. It only exposes the hopeless rottenness of the system this government represents and protects. It merely enflames the people’s revolutionary anger and collective desire for holistic change. It just pushes the people to be more determined in breaking free from the structures of oppression and exploitation.
This government may have succeeded in imprisoning me for now, but it can never be triumphant in containing the surging people’s wrath.
NDFP Consultant for the Visayas
14 May 2014
Bohol District Jail (BDJ) in Cabawan
District, Tagbilaran City
Let me convey my gratitude for the opportunity to respond to baseless allegations and malicious innuendoes hurled at me by the AFP and their patrons.
Immediately after abducting me in my hometown, this government has kept me incommunicado by transferring me from one detention cell to another across the seas until finally jailing me in Bohol where I once studied and then learned the necessity and worked for the realization of a systemic revolution. In the crucial time following my abduction, government agents denied me the right to counsel, as they interrogated and threatened and manhandled me. While locked up from public scrutiny, I was accused of trumped-up charges and misrepresented as guilty felon through trial by publicity.
I didn’t know then that having medical treatment with one’s family physician translates to “island-resort hopping” of sorts in military mind, and that either constitutes a crime. I and my aide were just surprised that morning of May 7, 2014, when intelligence operatives pounced on us while on our way for my follow-up check up for diabetes.
During my arrest, I was robbed of my personal belongings. Until now, my phone, journal, and flash drives haven’t been returned.
All these because of my being a consultant to the peace panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) in its peace negotiations with this government. It is a role I have taken since Cory Aquino opened peace overtures after the EDSA Revolt. Then and now, the duplicity of this government at feigning negotiations in order to gather intelligence information against its perceived enemies has reached scandalous heights.
Instead of respecting the agreements it signed with the NDFP, this government is instead preoccupied in emasculating each one, especially the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG). In fact, there are now 169 victims of extra-judicial killings nationwide since the beginning of Aquino’s presidency, as documented by KARAPATAN. This year alone, 19 human rights defenders were executed by government agents, including veteran people’s lawyer and comrade Noel Archival. There has also been continued crackdown on those involved in the NDFP’s peace panel. Just weeks before, a similar, bare-faced attack on fellow NDFP peace consultants Benito and Wilma Tiamzon was carried out in Cebu.
This travesty justice and its own due processes, however, serves only as this government’s own undoing. It only exposes the hopeless rottenness of the system this government represents and protects. It merely enflames the people’s revolutionary anger and collective desire for holistic change. It just pushes the people to be more determined in breaking free from the structures of oppression and exploitation.
This government may have succeeded in imprisoning me for now, but it can never be triumphant in containing the surging people’s wrath.
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