PNP-NYPD agreement will lead to further US intervention, rights abuses under Aquino regime--CPP

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PNP-NYPD agreement will lead to further US intervention, rights abuses under Aquino regime--CPP

Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
November 04, 2012

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) denounced the memorandum of agreement between the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the New York Police Department (NYPD) signed last Wednesday as "part of heightening US government intervention in the Philippines."


The CPP further said that "the agreement with the US NYPD, one of the most notorious fascist police organizations in the world, can only lead to worse human rights abuses by police operatives under the Aquino regime," said the CPP.

The MoA was signed by PNP Chief Nicanor Bartolome and the head of the NYPD's Singapore satellite office Lt. Gustavo Gutierrez. The purportedly calls for "cooperation in addressing transnational crimes" and "capacity building and training" between the PNP and the NYPD. According to information earlier released by the PNP, the NYPD will open a satellite office inside the PNP's general headquarters in Camp Crame.

"The PNP-NYPD MoA will only serve as an additional legal cover for the US government's heightening intervention in the Philippines. It will lead to more extensive and intrusive intelligence and other types of operations by US police and military agents in the country," said the CPP.

"Even before the MoA, US police and federal agents have already been operating in the Philippines clandestinely with the cooperation of the local police." The CPP pointed out that political prisoners detained at the PNP Custodial Center in Camp Crame were able to uncover the presence of agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (NBI) maintaining their own offices within the camp and in a condominium unit nearby.

Several Indonesian nationals accused of being "terrorists" and arrested by US agents in Indonesia and Malaysia have been renditioned by the US government and given false Filipino identities at the behest of the NBI to justify their detention at Camp Crame. This is in violation of Philippine national sovereignty and the Indonesian detainees' human rights, added the CPP.

"The NYPD is notorious for being a fascist tool of suppression against the American people," said the CPP. "Recently, the NYPD was employed in the suppression of protest actions at Zucotti Park near Wall St. by American workers, students and ordinary people against the pro-big monopoly policies of the American government."

"In investigations carried out by human rights and law groups, the NYPD was found to have used excessive police force, and guilty of hundreds of other violations, including unjustified arrests, abuse of journalists, unlawful closure of sidewalks and parks to protesters, and pervasive surveillance of peaceful activists, said the CPP.

"Following the pattern of its new partner, the PNP is bound to become even more brutal in dealing with protests, urban poor anti-demolition barricades and other mass actions," said the CPP.

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From the Website of OPPAP
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NPA must surrender Davao blast suspects, says peace talks monitoring team

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Posted on Friday, 28 September, 2012 - 12:03

The government committee tasked to monitor the peace negotiations with communist guerrillas has denounced the refusal of the New People’s Army (NPA) to surrender the suspects behind the grenade attack in Paquibato District, Davao City that injured 47 persons, mostly children.

In a statement, the Government of the Philippines Monitoring Committee (GPH-MC) said true and impartial justice demands that the NPA must surrender and subject the perpetuators of the grenade attack to the Philippine justice system.

The statement said the NPA’s admission that the attack was a mistake and its subsequent payment of P5,000 to each of the 47 victims “would not be sufficient to give the victims, many of whom were children, true justice.”

The GPH-MC statement echoed an earlier statement of lawyer Alex Padilla, chairman of the government peace panel dealing with the communist rebels, who decried the indemnification offer and said it was a mere “stopgap and diversionary measure."
“The NPA has long maintained that its forces are well-versed in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (HR-IHL),” the GPH-MC statement said. “In signing the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Laws (CARHRIHL) through its political entity the National Democratic Front (NDF), the NPA has in effect held itself accountable to these standards.”

“If it were truly a champion of human rights and international humanitarian law, the NPA would readily surrender [the rebel] perpetrators of the Paquibato bombing and their other HR-IHL crimes to the Philippine justice system, which, however imperfect, remains a far better legal remedy to HR-IHL stakeholders and to the public than the ‘justice system’ of  the NPA,” the statement added.

The NPA had earlier said they would deal with the matter in their own justice system, which, the GPH-MC said, “has never been transparent—open to the public, the media, nor the government.”

Responding to the rebel group’s statement denouncing the government’s system of justice and accountability, the GPH-MC said “The NPA’s refusal to submit themselves to the Philippine justice system, does not change the fact that the group is not above international HR and IHL principles and laws, which they and their legal entity, the NDF, continually invoke when they allege violations” by the government’s security forces.
The GPH-MC is the counterpart of the National Democratic Front-Monitoring Committee. Both committees form the Joint Monitoring Committee, an entity that oversees and ensures compliance to CARHRIHL.

Padilla said the “reckless action raised by the NPA is simply not acceptable and such uncivilized and irresponsible act is a grave violation of human rights and will not lead to any meaningful resolution” to issues being raised by the Communist rebels.
“If the group sincerely wants to put a solution to the country’s problems, the rightful way would be to go back to the negotiating table with the government and exhaust ways on how to work together in reaching just and lasting peace,” Padilla said.

Last September 1, the NPA’s Merardo Arce Command of Southern Mindanao admitted its operatives threw a grenade at a fiesta gathering in the Paquibato District in Davao City.
In a statement to media, the NPA claimed the grenade was intended for a nearby military detachment but was mistakenly lobbed into a civilian crowd gathered for a circus performance. Forty-seven civilians, many of them children, were gravely injured in the explosion.

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AFP Welcomes 1.42 Billion for Camp Projects

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AFP Welcomes 1.42 Billion for Camp Projects

CAMP GENERAL EMILIO AGUINALDO, Quezon City – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) welcomes the administration’s recent move to shape up the military’s camp by releasing a P1.42-Billion fund to the AFP General Headquarters through the Department of Budget and Management (DBM).

DBM said that the total fund release will be used to support various military camp upgrade initiatives, including Architectural and Engineering upgrades amounting to P1.14 billion. Included as well in the release is the amount of P282 million for the construction of a Combined Arms Readiness Training Center, as well as P594,000 for Training and Doctrine Command Projects, among others.

The AFP leadership deems the fund release advantageous in its efforts to expedite the implementation of the military camp and facilities improvement projects, which are included in its Bases and Support Systems Development (BSSD) Programs.
The BSSD is one of the AFP Modernization and Capability Upgrade Program’s five interlocking components which include Force Restructuring and Organizational Development, Doctrines Development, Human Resource Development and Capability, Materiel and Technology Development.



More Support from BCDA through Bases Development

Meanwhile, Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) President, Arnel Paciano Casanova vowed to intensify its continued support to the AFP Modernization and Capability Upgrade Program by outlining potential fund-generating projects to benefit the military. He continues to touch base and further reach out to military personnel in numerous speaking engagements and dialogues.

Casanova discussed opportunities for several AFP camps in the recently concluded Public Affairs Seminar/Workshop held at the Philippine Army Headquarters in Fort Bonifacio last September 14. He addressed the Spokesperson of the Philippine Army and other talking heads of the different Army divisions about the foreseen comprehensive development program for Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation in Nueva Ecija. There are still other areas for development that must be studied. This will ensure the proper utilization of idle military lands and is aimed at maximizing the potential of the large tracts of land located within AFP bases and camps nationwide.

The BCDA president also enlightened Philippine Army Public Affairs Officers about the BCDA's role in the AFP modernization.

"As of June 2012, the AFP share in the BCDA's Asset Disposition Program amounts to P 21.788 billion. The fund has been remitted to the National Treasury, which the AFP can tap for the modernization program. We will continue to contribute to the protection of our national security by supporting the AFP Modernization Program and providing assistance in base development planning," Casanova said.

The AFP has been continuously receiving assistance and support from the BCDA as contribution to the implementation of the AFP Modernization and Capability Upgrade Program.

Aside from the shares received in the disposition of lots, the military is also receiving share from non-sale transactions like the JUSMAG Replication Project as reflected by the residential condominium buildings turned over to the Philippine Army, Philippine Air Force and Philippine Navy. The replication program is a P700-million project which aims to provide the AFP with 12 residential condominium buildings. Currently, the state agency has already turned over six condo buildings and is set to complete the other six by the end of the year.



Significant Development for AFP Camps

The most recent release from DBM and the continued BCDA’s contributions come as significant development for the improvement of our military camps facilities which encompass the housing of our military officers within Camp Bonifacio in Taguig and Villamor Air Base in Pasay.

The AFP believes that aside from procuring weapons systems and acquiring other military hardwares, the enhancement of our camp’s administrative and training facilities within our military bases is equally important. Such upgrade will surely boost military personnel’s readiness and morale enabling a better prepared and much capable military organization.
“We are ever grateful for the continued care and concern of the government to the AFP. It is looking after our soldiers’ welfare by continuously providing the troops a more comprehensive support system and quality training facilities which will significantly contribute in proficiently fulfilling our sworn mandate,” AFP Chief of Staff General Jessie D. Dellosa said.

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The persistence of military rule in the country

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The persistence of military rule in the country

ANG BAYAN
21 September 2012

Military terrorism persists in the country. Military rule remains a reality 40 years after Ferdinand Marcos' formal declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972 and 26 years after his regime was overthrown in a people's uprising in February 1986.

Marcos used martial law to perpetuate himself in power and strengthen the rule of foreign big capitalists, big bourgeois compradors, landlords and bureaucrat capitalists.


Despite the much-vaunted restoration of democracy, there is little to distinguish succeeding regimes from the despised Marcos fascist dictatorship. Even without a formal martial law declaration, state terrorism is able to prevail. The exploiters and oppressors backed up by martial law continue to lord it over.

This has been made possible through the intensified militarization of the country since the time of Corazon Aquino's regime up to that of her son Benigno Aquino III. The current regime bears the notoriety of launching massive and incessant military operations and maintaining a heavy military presence in peasant and urban poor communities nationwide.

To preserve the rotten and bankrupt semicolonial and semifeudal system, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP) and other armed minions of the reactionary state have been expanded and given major roles to play since 1972. The AFP's ascendance in many aspects of Philippine society is a manifestation of the continuously worsening crisis of the ruling system, which has made it necessary to strengthen the coercive forces of the state and suppress the people's growing resistance.

Marcos beefed up the AFP from 60,000 to 100,000 troops upon the declaration of martial law and further expanded it to 250,000 in mid-1975 after integrating the forces of the PC-INP. After martial law, the AFP's size further swelled to 200,000 and the PNP from 115,000 to its current size of 140,000. These figures do not include paramilitary forces like the CAFGU and other armed groups controlled by the military whose numbers have also grown severalfold.

The AFP not only serves as the strongest bastion of the reactionary ruling system. It is also US imperialism's most reliable instrument for ensuring its dominance over the country. The AFP is the US' most unflinching ally in the protection of its strategic interests in the Philippines and in stabilizing the reactionary political system, safeguarding foreign investments and suppressing the anti-imperialist and revolutionary forces. Towards this end, US imperialism has taken tremendous efforts to strengthen the AFP's organization, supply it with weapons and train its personnel on current US doctrine.

The AFP and PNP, in fact, trace their origins to the first mercenary troops from Macabebe, Pampanga who were used by the American colonialists to pursue Filipino revolutionaries resisting US occupation troops from 1899-1903. These forces later evolved into the Philippine Scouts (which later became the Philippine Scout Rangers) and the Philippine Constabulary.

Key officers of the AFP are sent for training to US military institutions such as West Point Military Academy, Annapolis Naval Academy and Fort Benning and are recruited as agents of the imperialist Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The AFP is supplied with weapons through the US Foreign Defense Financing Program, and arms procurements from other countries under the AFP Modernization Program are  supervised by US military advisers.

On the other hand, every counterrevolutionary campaign waged by the Philippine puppet government is patterned after US doctrine. The current Oplan Bayanihan is practically an exact copy of the US Counterinsurgency Guide of 2009.

The AFP was able to establish its politico-military power in all aspects of Philippine society during martial law's formal 14-year existence. The extent to which the Philippine social system has been militarized is boosted further as tens of thousands of former military officers occupy positions in the civilian bureaucracy. They are either appointed to various government agencies or elected to congress or local government posts. Militarizing the bureaucracy serves the purpose of accommodating retired ranking military officers who are cronies of reactionary politicians. In the same way, the AFP is able to use the civilian bureaucracy to advance its counterrevolutionary programs.

Using the military to deliver services that should be provided by civilian agencies of government has also become a widespread practice, and has become even more rampant under the US-Aquino regime's Oplan Bayanihan through the AFP's "peace and development organizing teams." Civil-military operations feature military troops conducting censuses and medical and dental missions, constructing and repairing schoolbuildings that are eventually used by them as barracks for as long as a year and even grotesque scenes of soldiers providing human rights education to schoolchildren.

This is an insidious effort to erase from the people's collective memory the evil role played by the reactionary military in sowing fascist terror and preserving the exploitative and oppressive ruling system. With the people's consciousness anesthesized into accepting the pervasiveness of the military and turning a blind eye to military abuses, their militant resistance to militarization wanes until they become tolerant of repression.

But all these efforts by the AFP, the Aquino regime and their US imperialist master are in vain. An institution that is puppet, repressive, corrupt and mercenary to the core can never be deodorized and will never evolve into a positive force in society.

With open fascist rule during the dark days of the Marcos dictatorship, the people became witness to militarization at its worst. Marcos' martial law has left a poisonous legacy of pervasive militarization and persistent military repression, perpetuated in the guise of "peace and development operations." This is the truth that must be brought to the fore with every commemoration of the martial law declaration.

There is no fitting response to relentless military repression other than for the people to tirelessly expose the truth and persevere in their resistance.

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From the Website of MILF
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Government soldiers hit over raid, human rights violations in Basilan town

September 22, 2012 News: Civilians cried for justice over the raid and human rights violations committed by elements of Philippine Army Scout Rangers in a civilian community at Barangay Ulitan in Ungkaya Pukan, Basilan at early morning today.

“The government soldiers should respect human rights and protect us civilians. But unfortunately they harm us and violated our rights. We thought martial law is over but no in our homeland. We demand justice.”

Information received from the ground said more than 100 troops of Scout Rangers stormed Ulitan at passed 4am and immediately conducted raids on scores of civilian residences.
Four houses, at least, including the house of the community religious leaders, were reportedly raided.

Without saying anything, the government soldiers just destroyed the doors of the houses and told the residents inside to stay down on the floor.

“There were no search warrants shown and the government soldiers just search every corner and took with them some belongings,” the information stated.

Civilians from the vicinity run away in immense fear in the middle of the raid being conducted by soldiers in full combat gear.

“The early morning prayer was disrupted and civilians fled following this abusive military operation,” the information said.

Ulitan is a civilian village adjacent to the Municipal Government Hall of Ungkaya Pukan. The Scout Rangers came from their command post in Tipo-Tipo.

The affected civilians called on the local government unit of Ungkaya Pukan, Commission on Human Rights (CHR), human rights groups, the government and MILF ceasefire committees, and the civilian protection and human rights experts from the International Monitoring Team to probe the incident and for further appropriate actions o serve justice.

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