MARIA ROJA BANUA
SPOKESPERSON
NDF-BICOL
December 1,2021
The Bicolano people suffered from an unparalleled spree of killings and violence against civilians under the three-year enforcement of Memorandum Order No. 32 in Bikol. The said directive placed Bicol at the fore in terms of repression, political killings and other human rights violations.
With MO 32 in effect, Duterte placed the region under a de facto martial law. Bicol was besieged by one of the largest AFP-PNP-CAFGU troop deployment which was given an extensive authority to launch intensified and more blatant attacks against the masses of the region. The Joint Task Force Bicolandia systematically expanded its massive killing campaign and anti-communist purge under the pretext of various military operations and anti-criminality campaigns.
Under MO 32, Bicol became an extrajudicial killing and massacre capital. The masses were outright targets of prevalent Nanlaban-patay or NPA-kaya-pinatay operations. From peasants, workers, professionals, members of the press, businessmen to local civilian officials and politicians, the directive showed no mercy. In a latest report, 130 out of the total 219 cases of political killings, including seven of the total 12 cases of massacre in the region were during the implementation of MO 32 since 2018.
Campaigns of illegal arrest that primarily targeted leaders and members alike of mass organizations became rampant. In a surge of police operations during the pandemic, more than a hundred civilians Red-tagged or accused as supporters of the revolutionary movement were arrested or detained. In fact, the region will commemorate Political Prisoners’ Day amidst the rising number of political detainees in Bicol.
MO 32 showed that no one sowed terrorism in Bicol other than Duterte and the Joint Task Force Bicolandia. Under the pretext of combating terrorism, Duterte and the JTFB used MO 32 in an attempt to suppress the resilient struggle and unity of the Bicolano people. The mass movement and its organizations were targeted. Critics and political opponents were neutralized. Media was silenced and controlled. Above all else, the masses, especially those in the countryside, were attempted to be drowned in fear. All of these were done to allow the unimpeded implementation of Duterte’s anti-people policies and projects in the region. And similar to the 2019 elections, MO 32 will certainly be used by the military to control the results of the 2022 elections in favor of Duterte along with his local regional cohorts.
MO 32 is a clear indication of Duterte’s abhorrence of the Bicolano people. It remains a challenge for the people of the region to fully defeat MO 32 and Duterte’s other fascist policies that further mired the masses to poverty. The people need to be more resolute and united to fight the intensifying campaigns of killing and military attack in the region. They need to overthrow the criminal and terrorist US-Duterte regime. There is no other way to carry out all these but to wage the just people’s democratic revolution.#
https://prwcinfo.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/mo-32-one-of-dutertes-biggest-crimes-against-the-bicolano-people-2/
December 1,2021
The Bicolano people suffered from an unparalleled spree of killings and violence against civilians under the three-year enforcement of Memorandum Order No. 32 in Bikol. The said directive placed Bicol at the fore in terms of repression, political killings and other human rights violations.
With MO 32 in effect, Duterte placed the region under a de facto martial law. Bicol was besieged by one of the largest AFP-PNP-CAFGU troop deployment which was given an extensive authority to launch intensified and more blatant attacks against the masses of the region. The Joint Task Force Bicolandia systematically expanded its massive killing campaign and anti-communist purge under the pretext of various military operations and anti-criminality campaigns.
Under MO 32, Bicol became an extrajudicial killing and massacre capital. The masses were outright targets of prevalent Nanlaban-patay or NPA-kaya-pinatay operations. From peasants, workers, professionals, members of the press, businessmen to local civilian officials and politicians, the directive showed no mercy. In a latest report, 130 out of the total 219 cases of political killings, including seven of the total 12 cases of massacre in the region were during the implementation of MO 32 since 2018.
Campaigns of illegal arrest that primarily targeted leaders and members alike of mass organizations became rampant. In a surge of police operations during the pandemic, more than a hundred civilians Red-tagged or accused as supporters of the revolutionary movement were arrested or detained. In fact, the region will commemorate Political Prisoners’ Day amidst the rising number of political detainees in Bicol.
MO 32 showed that no one sowed terrorism in Bicol other than Duterte and the Joint Task Force Bicolandia. Under the pretext of combating terrorism, Duterte and the JTFB used MO 32 in an attempt to suppress the resilient struggle and unity of the Bicolano people. The mass movement and its organizations were targeted. Critics and political opponents were neutralized. Media was silenced and controlled. Above all else, the masses, especially those in the countryside, were attempted to be drowned in fear. All of these were done to allow the unimpeded implementation of Duterte’s anti-people policies and projects in the region. And similar to the 2019 elections, MO 32 will certainly be used by the military to control the results of the 2022 elections in favor of Duterte along with his local regional cohorts.
MO 32 is a clear indication of Duterte’s abhorrence of the Bicolano people. It remains a challenge for the people of the region to fully defeat MO 32 and Duterte’s other fascist policies that further mired the masses to poverty. The people need to be more resolute and united to fight the intensifying campaigns of killing and military attack in the region. They need to overthrow the criminal and terrorist US-Duterte regime. There is no other way to carry out all these but to wage the just people’s democratic revolution.#
https://prwcinfo.wordpress.com/2021/12/01/mo-32-one-of-dutertes-biggest-crimes-against-the-bicolano-people-2/
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