From Ang Bayan posted to the CPP Website (Mar 21):
USS Emory S. Land docks anew at Subic
[Ang Bayan is the official news organ of the Communist Party of the Philippines and is issued by the
CPP Central Committee. It provides news about the work of the Party as well as its analysis of and standpoint on current issues.]
The Communist Party of the
Philippines
roundly condemned the docking anew of the
USS Emory S.
Land at Subic Bay on March 15, a few months after the ship was involved in the
dumping of toxic waste at
Subic Bay.
In October, a ship belonging to Glenn Defense Marine Asia was reported to
have dumped 200,000 liters of used oil and human waste from the
USS Emory S. Land at a portion of Subic Bay within the
Philippines’
economic zone and fishing grounds.
This act shows the
US’
contempt for the Filipino people who have long been struggling to put an end to
US military intervention and
presence in the
Philippines.
The US’ violation of Philippine sovereignty becomes all the more brazen
since the
USS Guardian’s running aground and
destruction of more than a hectare of coral reefs at Tubbataha have yet to be
resolved. As of now, only half of the ship has been removed from the protected
area.
The Communist Party of the
Philippines
reiterates its demand for the abrogation of all unequal treaties with the
US, including the RP-US Mutual Defense Treaty
and the Visiting Forces Agreement, which both pave the way for
US military
intervention and its violation of Philippine sovereignty.
In a related development, the
Philippines
and the
US
agreed during a March 19 meeting to hold “frequent and active consultations” to
develop defense relations and implement the “rebalancing” of US forces in the
Pacific. The meeting took place during a visit by US Deputy Secretary of
Defense Ashton Carter to Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin in
Camp Aguinaldo.
Part of the planned “rebalancing” involves the gradual deployment of the
US naval fleet
to the Asia-Pacific until most of it has been transferred by 2020.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/publications/ang_bayan/20130321/uss-emory-s-land-docks-anew-at-subic
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