Fr. Santiago Salas (Ka Sanny)
Spokesperson
NDFP Eastern Visayas Chapter
Spokesperson
NDFP Eastern Visayas Chapter
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines-Eastern Visayas today condemned the puppet president Benigno Aquino III, who is visiting the region, for taking advantage of the people after the devastation caused by supertyphoon Yolanda to justify the launching here of US naval exercises this June. “We strongly condemn the holding of US naval exercises in the waters off Tacloban City, Leyte and other parts of the Eastern Visayas this June, dubbed as Pacific Partnership 2014, and ostensibly for reasons of humanitarian aid and disaster reponse,” said Fr. Santiago Salas, NDFP-EV spokesperson. “But these exercises by US and Philippine forces as well as other allies will be carried out under the aegis of the treasonous Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) between the US and Philippine governments. The puppet Philippine government and its US imperialist master should be despised for taking advantage of the people’s sufferings after Yolanda to make the large-scale presence of US and other foreign troops seem acceptable. In fact, under the guise of “humanitarian response” that is included in the EDCA, the US retains access rights to Tacloban and Mactan airports, as well as the airstrip and naval port in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, even long after the participation of US forces in the Yolanda relief operations.”
Fr. Salas recalled that the US “humanitarian response” after Yolanda constituted virtual gunboat diplomacy, even as some international humanitarian agencies had to undergo the Philippine government’s red tape before they could get to the typhoon victims. “After supertyphoon Yolanda struck last November 8, 2013, the US promptly dispatched 13,400 military personnel, 66 aircraft and 12 naval vessels to Tacloban City and Guiuan. Thus afterwards, the US found it expedient to include the humanitarian aid and disaster response aspect to the EDCA to justify its large troop presence. Despite the lip service to humanitarianism, the US troops convey the political, economic and military objectives of an imperialist superpower.”
The NDFP-EV spokesperson said the EDCA tramples on national sovereignty and should be vigorously resisted by the people. “The EDCA essentially makes the entire Philippines a US military and naval base. The US troops in so-called Agreed Locations are granted full authority to carry out whatever military operations in their camps, store any weapons including nuclear ones, and deny access to Philippine civilian and military officials. Since 2010, US warships have increasingly used the Philippines. According to the US Navy, 51 of its warships came to the Philippines in 2010, 54 in 2011, 88 in 2012, and 72 in the first half of 2013 alone. Aside from trampling on Philippine sovereignty, the US will also surely make the Philippines as its launching pad for military interrvention and wars of aggression against other countries where it has imperialist interests.”
Fr. Salas branded Aquino a traitor for ensuring the EDCA between the US and Philippine governments, and called on the people to intensify their revolutionary struggle. “Noynoy Aquino called the people his boss, but US imperialism is his real boss. Noynoy Aquino shamelessly uses the Yolanda survivors as the doormats for the US troops. Through its subservience to US imperialism, the puppet Aquino government is revealed as having no interest in genuine reconstruction for the region after Yolanda. Genuine reconstruction means, aside from humanitarian assistance, economic recovery through agrarian reform and national industrialization. But the Aquino government is instead paving the way for big business cronyism, big landlordism, imperialist mining,and widespread corruption.
“Thus the millions of Yolanda survivors and the rest of the people are inflamed to fight for their democratic and anti-imperialist interests. They must vigorously expose and oppose the US Pacific Partnership 2014 naval exercises and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. They must resolutely fight in the revolutionary mass struggle and revolutionary armed struggle.”
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20140529_repudiate-the-traitor-noynoy-aquino-for-selling-out-the-yolanda-survivors-and-philippine-sovereignty
Fr. Salas recalled that the US “humanitarian response” after Yolanda constituted virtual gunboat diplomacy, even as some international humanitarian agencies had to undergo the Philippine government’s red tape before they could get to the typhoon victims. “After supertyphoon Yolanda struck last November 8, 2013, the US promptly dispatched 13,400 military personnel, 66 aircraft and 12 naval vessels to Tacloban City and Guiuan. Thus afterwards, the US found it expedient to include the humanitarian aid and disaster response aspect to the EDCA to justify its large troop presence. Despite the lip service to humanitarianism, the US troops convey the political, economic and military objectives of an imperialist superpower.”
The NDFP-EV spokesperson said the EDCA tramples on national sovereignty and should be vigorously resisted by the people. “The EDCA essentially makes the entire Philippines a US military and naval base. The US troops in so-called Agreed Locations are granted full authority to carry out whatever military operations in their camps, store any weapons including nuclear ones, and deny access to Philippine civilian and military officials. Since 2010, US warships have increasingly used the Philippines. According to the US Navy, 51 of its warships came to the Philippines in 2010, 54 in 2011, 88 in 2012, and 72 in the first half of 2013 alone. Aside from trampling on Philippine sovereignty, the US will also surely make the Philippines as its launching pad for military interrvention and wars of aggression against other countries where it has imperialist interests.”
Fr. Salas branded Aquino a traitor for ensuring the EDCA between the US and Philippine governments, and called on the people to intensify their revolutionary struggle. “Noynoy Aquino called the people his boss, but US imperialism is his real boss. Noynoy Aquino shamelessly uses the Yolanda survivors as the doormats for the US troops. Through its subservience to US imperialism, the puppet Aquino government is revealed as having no interest in genuine reconstruction for the region after Yolanda. Genuine reconstruction means, aside from humanitarian assistance, economic recovery through agrarian reform and national industrialization. But the Aquino government is instead paving the way for big business cronyism, big landlordism, imperialist mining,and widespread corruption.
“Thus the millions of Yolanda survivors and the rest of the people are inflamed to fight for their democratic and anti-imperialist interests. They must vigorously expose and oppose the US Pacific Partnership 2014 naval exercises and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. They must resolutely fight in the revolutionary mass struggle and revolutionary armed struggle.”
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20140529_repudiate-the-traitor-noynoy-aquino-for-selling-out-the-yolanda-survivors-and-philippine-sovereignty
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