CPP: CPP calls for opposition to Aquino plans to open 1 million hectares of Moro land to foreign mining companies

From the CPP Website (Oct 31): CPP calls for opposition to Aquino plans to open 1 million hectares of Moro land to foreign mining companies

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) called on the Filipino and Moro peoples “to unite and oppose plans by the Aquino regime to open up at least a million hectares of Moro land to foreign mining companies.” The CPP said this can only result in the plunder of the Moro people’s rich oil, gas and other mineral and timber resources and the exploitation and oppression of the Moro people." The CPP said the Aquino regime is taking advantage of the “peace fanfare” over the signing of the Framework Agreement between the Manila-based reactionary Philippines government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) “in order to boost the entry of foreign monopoly-capitalists companies which have long been drooling over the rich natural resources in areas covered by the Moro people’s ancestral domain.” The CPP issued the statement in reaction to reports that the Aquino regime’s Department of Energy has opened for bidding Area 11 covering 600,000 hectares and Area 12 covering 456,000 hectares of mineral lands both in Cotabato. These are located in the basin areas covering 14,000 square kilometers, including parts of the Liguasan Marsh. “The US government has long been seeking to exploit the rich potentials of the Moro land,” said the CPP. It cited a 2006 intelligence assessment by the US embassy stating that “the Philippines may have untapped minerals worth between $840 billion to $1 trillion” in Mindanao....

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/cpp-calls-for-opposition-to-aquino-plans-to-open-1-million-hectares-of-moro-land-to-foreign-mining-companies