From InterAksyon (Dec 10): Report on CIA torture one more reason to junk EDCA - Bayan
If the issue of sovereignty is not enough to scrap the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the US, the just released report on torture carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency should be enough reason to junk the pact, an activist group said Wednesday.
The US Senate report detailed brutal interrogation techniques adopted by the CIA after the September 11 terrorist attacks, including some that went beyond what the American government had officially acknowledged.
Among these were rectal feeding and rehydration, used as a "means of behavior control."
“That the US is capable of these things should be reason enough not to allow EDCA,” said Renato Reyes, secretary general of the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan.
“The Philippine government should at least be alarmed by the US CIA torture report, especially since the US has waged its war on terror in the (Philippines) since 2002,” Reyes said. “Have US facilities in Mindanao and elsewhere been used to interrogate suspects?”
Reyes worried that locations in the country that American forces are allowed to use under the EDCA “will be used as rendition sites,” referring to the US' abduction of terror suspects and detaining them in other countries, where they are often tortured.
The EDCA allows the increased presence of American troops in the country and also allows them to use local military facilities.
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/100885/report-on-cia-torture-one-more-reason-to-junk-edca---bayan
It didn't take long for the commie America haters to exploit the release of the US Senate report on CIA torture. Reyes is a long-time Communist Party of the Philippines activist and the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN--New Patriotic Alliance) is the main CPP umbrella multisectoral front organization active in the Philippines (there are even some chapters overseas). More commie propaganda weaving the CIA torture theme into the CPP's anti-VFA/EDCA and anti-US military campaigns is to be expected.
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