CPP blasts Aquino's human rights "superbody" as publicity gimmick

From the CPP Website (Dec 1): CPP blasts Aquino's human rights "superbody" as publicity gimmick

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today dismissed the Aquino regime’s formation of the so-called “human rights superbody” as “nothing more than a publicity stunt to pretend that it is serious in defending human rights while its armed state agents continue to trample on human rights with impunity and increasing brutality.” Aquino announced the issuance of Administrative Order No. 35 last Thursday which directs the formation of the Inter-Agency Committee (IAC) to handle cases of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, torture and other forms of human rights abuses. The IAC is supposed to prioritize human cases committed under the previous regime.

“The formation of this so-called human rights ‘superbody’ is a desperate attempt to shore up Aquino’s faltering popularity both locally and internationally due to continuing grave abuses of human rights,” added the CPP. “As if to insult the victims of human rights abuses, Aquino appointed the head of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) as members of the IAC,” said the CPP. “This single act alone show clearly that this IAC will go nowhere in terms of resolving the outstanding cases of human rights violations carried out by military and police agents in line with the present and past reactionary regime’s policies of all-out war of suppression.” “Aquino’s brutal Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression has reduced respect for human rights into empty rhetoric.”

“For three years now, the Aquino regime has promised to uphold human rights. Like many others, Aquino has failed to deliver on this promise, more than three years into his six-year term. On the contrary, violations of human rights continue to be committed by the AFP and PNP against civilians in the course of implementing Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan war,” pointed out the CPP. “Massacres, extrajudicial killings, torture, illegal arrests, beatings, threats of physical harm, violations of domicile and many other human rights transgressions are being perpetrated by state armed agents in the course of militarizing communities in the name of ‘peace and development’.”,,,,,

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/cpp-blasts-aquino-s-human-rights-superbody-as-publicity-gimmick