CPP/CIO: Denounce more US military support for Duterte’s terror war under “improved” VFA

Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Jun 5, 2021): Denounce more US military support for Duterte’s terror war under “improved” VFA

MARCO VALBUENA

CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE PHILIPPINES

JUNE 05, 2021

An “improved” Visiting Forces Agreement, supposedly a result of weeks of negotiations between US and Philippine panels, can only mean one thing: more US military support for Duterte’s terror war against the Filipino people. Duterte pushed for the VFA’s renegotiation under his “pera-pera lang iyan” foreign policy, as a way of seeking more material and monetary support for his regime.

We expect the US government to extend bigger financial and material support to the Philippine military and police in the form of more helicopters, fighter planes, bombs, cannons and artillery shells, rifles and bullets. In doing so, the US will be even more complicit in the Duterte regime’s bloody war of suppression marked by rampant extrajudicial killings, unlawful arrests, indiscriminate bombings and strafing.

Securing an “improved” VFA from the US will embolden Duterte and his clique of state terrorists to push their scheme to perpetuate their rule beyond 2022, which is now taking the form of Duterte running as vice-president to be de facto president under his minion, or the reserve card of imposing an open fascist dictatorship before the elections.

An “improved” VFA will certainly give the US military greater access to Philippine military facilities. This is in line with US aims of transforming the entire country into a large outpost for heightened US overseas operations in the Asia-Pacific in defense of US economic and political interests.

https://cpp.ph/statements/denounce-more-us-military-support-for-dutertes-terror-war-under-improved-vfa/