NDFP National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Communist Party of the Philippines
September 8, 2015
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its well-wishes to Andrea Rosal who was released last night from detention after more than one year of suffering unjust detention and persecution by the Aquino regime and its military and police forces.
Rosal’s release from Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City was ordered last night after the last of the trumped-up charges of murder and kidnapping filed against her was dismissed by the Quezon Regional Trial Court in Mauban yesterday.
The CPP urges the Filipino people to bring Benigno Aquino III and his top military and security officials to account for the unjust incarceration and inhuman treatment of Andrea Rosal. Aquino must be made to pay for all the sufferings that Andrea was made to undergo.
Rosal was arrested last March 2014 while she was seven months pregnant. Despite her appeals and recommendations of her doctors, Aquino’s officials refused to provide her with facilities for expectant mothers and only belatedly brought her
to the hospital just hours before she was set to give birth.
The cramped conditions in her detention cell aggravated Rosal’s pregnancy. She gave birth to daughter Diona Andrea on May 16. She would not be allowed by the police to touch her infant daughter while in intensive care. Baby Diona died two days later due to medical complications.
Despite still undergoing post-natal care, she was ordered to be immediately brought back to her cramped detention cell. Without an iota of compassion, the Aquino regime also denied her appeal to attend the burial of her child and was instead given only three hours to visit her wake.
Andrea was subjected to inhumane treatment and persecution for no other reason than being the daughter of “Ka Roger”, the erstwhile spokesperson of the CPP Gregorio Rosal. Ka Roger, who passed away in 2011, was pursued by the AFP for almost a decade but was never captured.
Andrea herself was snatched from her grandmother by elements of the AFP’s Southern Luzon Command in 1988 when she was barely six years old in order to compel her father to surrender to the AFP. She will only be released by the military a few days later under intense public pressure after Ka Roger and Andrea’s grandmother exposed their crime through the media.
The AFP and the ruling classes are so incensed for having failed to ever capture Ka Roger. The reactionary security and military officials are doubly incensed over the fact that his daugher, Andrea, has chosen the path of resistance against oppression and exploitation, serving the Filipino people’s national democratic struggle.
For one year and a half, Andrea struggled to be free from detention. Human rights advocates, her family, friends and activists succeeded in rousing broad support and amplified calls for her freedom. The justness of her cause has won broad support here and abroad. The widespread campaign for Andrea’s cause and
the international shame this brought to the Aquino regime was key to her winning freedom.
Andrea’s cause has brought to international focus the plight of political detainees in the Philippines now numbering close to 550. Like Andrea, they have been subjected to intense state persecution. With no exception, political detainees have been charged with multiple trumped-up cases backed by “professional” witnesses, and made to suffer delayed prosecution of cases and
prolonged detention—with some suffering 8-10 years of imprisonment without finality to the cases filed against them. The Aquino regime and its security forces aim to capture more.
Learning from Andrea’s victory, every political detainee must exert all-out effort to raise the loudest cry for justice from the bowels of the reactionary state’s dungeons; while outside, their family and friends can organize and mobilize broad support. Their lawyers must continue to adeptly handle the legal
cases and expose the farcical charges raised against the political detainees. Political detainees must combine the legal and political struggle keeping in mind that the political struggle is principal in their struggle for freedom.
In the past, the struggle of political detainees for freedom were not confined to the legal or political. Especially under martial law, scores upon scores of political detainees availed of various means of “self-release”. Every second under detention was devoted to devising myriad methods of escape: digging tunnels, sawing off bars, using deception to walk through the gates, and many others. A number of political detainees were also rescued by the New People’s Army (NPA) while en route to court or while being transferred from one jail to another.
It is clear that the current policy of the US-directed Aquino regime and its military and police is to subject revolutionaries and activists to prolonged detention in order to prevent them from serving the Filipino people’s national democratic cause.
Indeed, political detainees must do everything in their might to attain freedom and rejoin the mainstream of the people’s national democratic revolution.
As always, the revolutionary forces are ever willing to assist political prisoners who wish to attain justice and freedom. However fortified, the enemy’s prisons are not invincible. There are a thousand ways to break the enemy’s chains and shackles in order to attain the freedom to help advance the people’s
democratic revolution.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20150914_bring-aquino-to-account-for-the-unjust-incarceration-of-andrea-rosal-and-hundreds-of-political-detainees
September 8, 2015
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) extends its well-wishes to Andrea Rosal who was released last night from detention after more than one year of suffering unjust detention and persecution by the Aquino regime and its military and police forces.
Rosal’s release from Camp Bagong Diwa in Taguig City was ordered last night after the last of the trumped-up charges of murder and kidnapping filed against her was dismissed by the Quezon Regional Trial Court in Mauban yesterday.
The CPP urges the Filipino people to bring Benigno Aquino III and his top military and security officials to account for the unjust incarceration and inhuman treatment of Andrea Rosal. Aquino must be made to pay for all the sufferings that Andrea was made to undergo.
Rosal was arrested last March 2014 while she was seven months pregnant. Despite her appeals and recommendations of her doctors, Aquino’s officials refused to provide her with facilities for expectant mothers and only belatedly brought her
to the hospital just hours before she was set to give birth.
The cramped conditions in her detention cell aggravated Rosal’s pregnancy. She gave birth to daughter Diona Andrea on May 16. She would not be allowed by the police to touch her infant daughter while in intensive care. Baby Diona died two days later due to medical complications.
Despite still undergoing post-natal care, she was ordered to be immediately brought back to her cramped detention cell. Without an iota of compassion, the Aquino regime also denied her appeal to attend the burial of her child and was instead given only three hours to visit her wake.
Andrea was subjected to inhumane treatment and persecution for no other reason than being the daughter of “Ka Roger”, the erstwhile spokesperson of the CPP Gregorio Rosal. Ka Roger, who passed away in 2011, was pursued by the AFP for almost a decade but was never captured.
Andrea herself was snatched from her grandmother by elements of the AFP’s Southern Luzon Command in 1988 when she was barely six years old in order to compel her father to surrender to the AFP. She will only be released by the military a few days later under intense public pressure after Ka Roger and Andrea’s grandmother exposed their crime through the media.
The AFP and the ruling classes are so incensed for having failed to ever capture Ka Roger. The reactionary security and military officials are doubly incensed over the fact that his daugher, Andrea, has chosen the path of resistance against oppression and exploitation, serving the Filipino people’s national democratic struggle.
For one year and a half, Andrea struggled to be free from detention. Human rights advocates, her family, friends and activists succeeded in rousing broad support and amplified calls for her freedom. The justness of her cause has won broad support here and abroad. The widespread campaign for Andrea’s cause and
the international shame this brought to the Aquino regime was key to her winning freedom.
Andrea’s cause has brought to international focus the plight of political detainees in the Philippines now numbering close to 550. Like Andrea, they have been subjected to intense state persecution. With no exception, political detainees have been charged with multiple trumped-up cases backed by “professional” witnesses, and made to suffer delayed prosecution of cases and
prolonged detention—with some suffering 8-10 years of imprisonment without finality to the cases filed against them. The Aquino regime and its security forces aim to capture more.
Learning from Andrea’s victory, every political detainee must exert all-out effort to raise the loudest cry for justice from the bowels of the reactionary state’s dungeons; while outside, their family and friends can organize and mobilize broad support. Their lawyers must continue to adeptly handle the legal
cases and expose the farcical charges raised against the political detainees. Political detainees must combine the legal and political struggle keeping in mind that the political struggle is principal in their struggle for freedom.
In the past, the struggle of political detainees for freedom were not confined to the legal or political. Especially under martial law, scores upon scores of political detainees availed of various means of “self-release”. Every second under detention was devoted to devising myriad methods of escape: digging tunnels, sawing off bars, using deception to walk through the gates, and many others. A number of political detainees were also rescued by the New People’s Army (NPA) while en route to court or while being transferred from one jail to another.
It is clear that the current policy of the US-directed Aquino regime and its military and police is to subject revolutionaries and activists to prolonged detention in order to prevent them from serving the Filipino people’s national democratic cause.
Indeed, political detainees must do everything in their might to attain freedom and rejoin the mainstream of the people’s national democratic revolution.
As always, the revolutionary forces are ever willing to assist political prisoners who wish to attain justice and freedom. However fortified, the enemy’s prisons are not invincible. There are a thousand ways to break the enemy’s chains and shackles in order to attain the freedom to help advance the people’s
democratic revolution.
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/20150914_bring-aquino-to-account-for-the-unjust-incarceration-of-andrea-rosal-and-hundreds-of-political-detainees
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