Duterte to AFP, PNP: Finish off Abu Sayyaf

From the Manila Bulletin (Jul 7, 2019): Duterte to AFP, PNP: Finish off Abu Sayyaf

With Filipinos “in danger,” President Duterte has directed the military to finish off the “crazy” Islamic State-linked Abu Sayyaf group for sowing terror in the south.



President Rodrigo Roa Duterte (VALERIE ESCALERA/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)

The President said the nation does not need brutal human beings like the Abu Sayyaf militants who do nothing but to kill and destroy.

“Kaya tayo medyo may gulo and the Abu Sayyaf, which is really a connect of ISIS is still sowing terror…My orders to my military and police to just simply wipe them out from the face of the Earth if we can do that,” he said during his visit to Leyte last Friday.

“If they can exhibit that kind of brutality, finish them off because we do not need that kind of human beings with us. We have been out to make peace with them,” he said.

Duterte said he has already placed a military division in Sulu to combat the Abu Sayyaf militants threatening public safety. “We have to continue to worry about terrorism,” the Mindanaoan leader said.

He admitted that fighting has been “brutal” in the south as the IS militants commit kidnap-for-ransom and murder. He bewailed that these lawless elements have a penchant to decapitate their captives.

“Despite of the payments, they still proceed to kill their victims,” he said.

“I see these crazy guys, the follower of Islam, they are adopting or nurturing an ideology or it is really none at all. It is so bankrupt and it’s also empty and what they know is just to kill and destroy,” he added.


The President’s remarks came after authorities suspected the alleged involvement of the Abu Sayyaf group in the recent suicide bombing in Sulu.

Eight people, including three soldiers, were killed when an improvised explosive device was detonated outside a military camp in Indanan, Sulu late last month.

The Abu Sayyaf group has eluded authorities for years, as they launched bomb attacks as well as kidnapped foreigners and Filipinos for ransom. President Duterte has ruled out any peace negotiations with the group, and instead ordered the military to destroy the militants.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/07/duterte-to-afp-pnp-finish-off-abu-sayyaf/

AFP-WestMinCom to adopt three solutions to resolve ASG problem in Sulu

From the Manila Bulletin (Jul 7, 2019): AFP-WestMinCom to adopt three solutions to resolve ASG problem in Sulu

ZAMBOANGA CITY – The Armed Forces of the Philippines–Western Mindanao Command (AFP-WestMinCom) will adopt three major solutions to put an end to the atrocities being committed by the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) and other terrorist groups in Sulu province.

AFP-WestMinCom Commander Lt Gen Cirilito Sobejana said, Saturday that one of the major and most harsh solutions that the military could adopt was to “finish them off”.

“We really have to finish the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in order for the investors to come in and do business (in Sulu),” Sobejana emphasized.

He noted that it was the only way to bring peace and development in Sulu, and help the province move forward.

Another solution was “if we want to defeat the enemy, then make them your friends rather than create enemies.”

“Everybody is our friend, kailangan din natin ang maraming kaibigan,” he said

He said the AFP-WestMinCom was now developing a tactical operational solution and approach which is strategic and advantageous to the military, provincial government and other local government agencies.

Sobejana said untouched natural resources and tourist attraction and destinations continued to be underdeveloped in the entire Sulu province due to the presence of the different renegade terrorist groups operating in the province, particularly the ASG.

These unfortunate situations have turned Sulu into one of the poorest provinces in Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) region, he said.

Sobejana made the disclosure in a separate interview at the launch of Up-Up Zamboanga held at the third Andrews Air Base of the Philippine Air Force here, Saturday.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/07/07/afp-westmincom-to-adopt-three-solutions-to-resolve-asg-problem-in-sulu/

Panelo: US staging coup vs. Duterte is Joma’s wishful thinking

From GMA News Online (Jul 7, 2019): Panelo: US staging coup vs. Duterte is Joma’s wishful thinking

Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo on Sunday said communist leader Jose Maria "Joma" Sison’s remark that the US can stage a coup against President Rodrigo Duterte is a wishful thinking.

In a statement on Saturday, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder and National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief political consultant Sison said the US does not need to fire the "first shot" against China, as Duterte had dared mighty America to do, given that Uncle Sam could just stage a coup against the Philippine president.

Sison said the US could instruct its following within the Philippine security forces to have Duterte taken into custody as a traitor and have Vice-President Leni Robredo installed as the successor.

But, Panelo told GMA News on Sunday that Joma’s claims are just wishful thinking from, he said, a washed-up revolutionary leader.

“Wishful thinking from an old, tired, failed and arm chair revolutionary,” Panelo told GMA News Online via text message.

Panelo said the CPP-NDFP leader is ‘living in exile and in comfort, while his comrades are in the hills and mountains fighting and struggling.’

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) earlier assured the people there will be no coup d'etatagainst the Duterte administration.

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/700141/panelo-us-staging-coup-vs-duterte-is-joma-s-wishful-thinking/story/

New Nolcom chief assumes post

From the Philippine Star (Jul 7, 2019): New Nolcom chief assumes post

SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela , Philippines — Maj. Gen. Ramiro Rey assumed his post as Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) chief on Friday.

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Gen. Benjamin Madrigal Jr. led the change of command ceremony at Camp Aquino in San Miguel, Tarlac City.

Rey replaced Lt. Gen. Emmanuel Salamat, who retired after 38 years of military service.

President Duterte recently announced that he is designating Salamat as head of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System.

Rey, who was former chief of the Special Operations Command, also served as commander of the Joint Task Force Ranao, which was in charge of the military operations in Marawi in 2017.

“I am honored to be called the commander of the north, where high-risk missions and challenges are common. My work here in Nolcom will not be easy. I know the responsibilities will be tremendous,” Rey said in his speech at the turnover ceremony.

The Nolcom is handling the AFP’s anti-terrorism and counterinsurgency campaign in Central and Northern Luzon.

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/07/07/1932559/new-nolcom-chief-assumes-post

China Dismisses U.S. Criticism of South China Sea Missile Tests

From Bloomberg (Jul 6, 2019): China Dismisses U.S. Criticism of South China Sea Missile Tests



Chinese military drills in the South China Sea. Photographer: STR/AFP

China’s military said its recent “live-fire drill” in the South China Sea didn’t target any country and wasn’t held to achieve specific objectives, after the U.S. denounced the missile tests as “coercive acts.”

China fired at least one missile into the sea last weekend and was expected to continue testing until July 3, NBC News reported Tuesday, citing anonymous U.S. officials. The launch occurred while U.S. President Donald Trump was in the region for a series of summits, including a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on resuming trade talks.

“The relevant report does not match the facts,” the Chinese Ministry of National Defense said in a fax to Bloomberg News. It said the drill was a part of its annual training plan organized by the Southern Theater Command.

The Chinese statement refers to an exercise “in nearby waters” of Hainan Island, while Pentagon spokesman Dave Eastburn said the missile launch was near the Spratly Islands, roughly 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) south of Hainan in the South China Sea.

China asserts control of more than 80% of the South China Sea, overlapping with claims by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan.

"The Pentagon was aware of the Chinese missile launch from the man-made structures in the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands," Eastburn said in an email earlier this week. "What’s truly disturbing about this act is that it’s in direct contradiction to President Xi’s statement in the Rose Garden in 2015 when he pledged to the U.S., the Asia-Pacific region, and the world, that he would not militarize those man-made outposts."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-06/china-dismisses-u-s-criticism-of-south-china-sea-missile-tests

Mindoro folk flee fighting with Reds

From the Philippine Daily Inquirer (Jul 7, 2019): Mindoro folk flee fighting with Reds

CITY OF CALAPAN, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines — Almost 800 residents were displaced by a series of clashes between security forces and New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Victoria town in Oriental Mindoro.

Tanie Malitao, municipal disaster risk and reduction management officer, said in a phone interview on Friday that the refugees were from the village of San Cristobal and nearby mountainous barangays of Concepcion, Loyal, San Antonio and Villa Cerveza.

The initial report of disaster responders showed 215 families, or a total of 777 individuals, evacuated to temporary shelters at the San Cristobal covered court, Loyal eco-park and San Antonio basketball court.

Traumatized by war

Malitao said that those in San Cristobal and Loyal stayed at the evacuation centers while those from San Antonio went to their residences during the day but returned at night.

“They are traumatized, and with the provincial social welfare office, we have intervened with debriefing sessions,” Malitao said.

The military reported that at least five people have already died from the series of clashes.

The fifth and latest fatality, according to a military report on Thursday, was identified as Mervin Malucon, an alleged NPA soldier.

Malucon was killed in the second of two encounters on Wednesday noon at Sitio Pamuwisan at Loyal in Victoria, Oriental Mindoro. Soldiers also recovered an M14 rifle, improvised explosives and six cellphones from the clash site.

But Capt. Patrick Jay Retumban, spokesperson of the Army’s 2nd Infantry Division, said another clash erupted in the same village around 8:30 a.m. on Thursday.

Another clash was also recorded by the military around the same time in Villa Cerveza.

“Our operations are continuing, without let up. Good thing is we are able to track them down,” Retumban said in a message to the Inquirer.

The clashes came after the Army’s 76th Infantry Battalion pursued a band of about 30 rebels, who were probably the same group encountered in Calintaan, Occidental Mindoro, on June 29, Retumban said.

Human-induced disaster

While the situation was calm on Saturday, Malitao said “the situation [was] a human-induced calamity because there had been a displacement.”

Meanwhile, relief assistance had been pouring in for the evacuees.

Malitao said the Victoria town government, provincial government and cause-oriented group Sambayanan extended help in the form of rice, coffee, canned goods, soap, milk, diapers, toothbrush and toothpaste.

The clashes and subsequent evacuations affected people’s livelihood in the town which is considered as the “fruit basket” of Oriental Mindoro.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1138629/mindoro-folk-flee-fighting-with-reds

CPP-NPA persona non grata in Toboso, Negros Occidental

From Politiko Visayas (Jul 7, 2019): CPP-NPA persona non grata in Toboso, Negros Occidental

Members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People’s Army are now officially no longer welcome in Toboso town in Negros Occidental.

Officials of the town signed Resolution 044 to mark the town’s 71st anniversary last July 1.

Local officials headed by Mayor Richard Jaojoco, 79th Infantry Battalion commander Lt. Col. Emelito Thaddeus Logan, and Police Maj. John Mocyat Jr., acting battalion commander of 6th Special Action Battalion of the Philippine National Police Special Action Force, led the signing.

The resolution had been approved during the regular session of the municipal council last June 25.

Under the resolution, Toboso town condemns “the illegal and unlawful activities of the CPP-NPA Terrorists (CNTs) as it threatens the economic, social and political stability of the municipality and its people.”

Logan commended the town government for its action against the communist terrorist group who destroys peace and development, as well as the lives of people in the area.

Last May 30, San Carlos City also passed Resolution No. 19-139, denouncing the atrocities perpetuated by the NPAs in the country and not to allow their presence in the city.

https://visayas.politics.com.ph/cpp-npa-persona-non-grata-in-toboso-negros-occidental/

MILF: “By 2040 Philippines is Poverty Free” - NAPC

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Website (Jul 6, 2019): “By 2040 Philippines is Poverty Free” - NAPC



COTABATO CITY – In a press conference held Wednesday at the Badjao Hall, BARMM, Lawyer Noel Felongco, Secretary of the National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) said that President Rodrigo Duterte would want to eradicate poverty incidence in the country by 2040.

Felongco said a 5-year development plan was crafted and is the NAPC contributions to the instruction of Duterte to reduce country’s poverty incidence in his term from 21.6% in 2015 to 14% or lower by 2022. “This means 22 Million Filipinos experiencing poverty,” he stressed.

“The instructions of Duterte is to lower down that record to 14% meaning that is tantamount to around 6-8 Million Filipinos lifted out from poverty.

The 5-year development plan is also the NAPC contributions to the full realization of vison of the President to really eradicate poverty in 2040 through the Executive Order No. 5 which called “ambition natin 2040”.

Felongco said that by 2040, 0% poverty in the Philippines will be observed. “All Filipinos will enjoy comfortable life, and nobody person and place will be left behind in terms of economic growth in our country,” Felongco pointed out.

The main reason why NAPC meet the LGUs and line agencies is to implement plan.

NAPC also made a courtesy call to BARMM BTA Interim Chief Minister Ahod B. Ebrahim before the press conference held on July 3 inside the Badjao Hall, BARMM, Cotabato City where he submitted copy of poverty situation analysis in the BARMM.

The NAPC made a proposal to BARMM to create office that will cater concerning rural development and poverty reduction.

Felongco revealed that among of the 40 provinces in the country there are BARMM provinces included in the top 5 of high incidence of poverty.

In the First half of 2018 poverty incidence Sulu has 74.3% poverty incidence, followed by Lanao del Sur 73.7%, Basilan with 72.1%, Maguindanao is 55.1%, Tawitawi is at 23.4% and Cotabato City is 48.7%.

“Over all poverty incidence in BARMM according PSA survey has 63% in the first half of 2018,” Felongco said.

The NAPC has been mandated to oversee, monitor and recommend measures to ensure the effective formulation, resource allocation and management of the program.

http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1840/---by-2040-philippines-is-poverty-free------napc

MILF: Gov’t Implementing Panel visits MILF’s Camp Abubakar

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Website (Jul 6, 2019): Gov’t Implementing Panel visits MILF’s Camp Abubakar

In Photo- Ms. Gloria Mercado, GPH Peace Panel Chair and Undersecretary, Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) speaks to residents during their visit to Camp Abubakar. (Seated right)-Col. Dickson Hermoso, Asst. Secretary, OPAPP

CAMP ABUBAKAR, BARIRA, MAGUINDANAO (July 5, 2019) — More than 300 are seated inside a community center here which was perhaps designed for not more than a hundred.

Despite the heavy downpour, the crowd, with some of them standing under the rain, eagerly awaited as the guests arrived and settled down at the makeshift stage. A burst of applause erupted as the emcee wearing a crisp, camouflage uniform acknowledged each of them.

The visitors are members of the Government of the Philippines Implementing Panel who came in full force. They traveled for more than two hours from Cotabato City – passing through rough terrain, wooden bridges and winding, one-lane roads – to reach the historic camp.

The panel was headed by its chair and Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Undersecretary Gloria Mercado, Chief-Of-Staff David Diciano, Assistant Secretary Dickson Hermoso and panel member Ariel Hernandez.

Putting a ‘human face’

In her message, Mercado explained that the panel’s visit is part of its efforts to help those residing in the six government-acknowledged Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) camps to better understand the Normalization process and how its implementation will benefit them.

“We would like to see the faces of the people in the camps. We would like to put a human face to our plans and develop a better appreciation of your place,” she told the crowd which was composed mostly of former MILF combatants and their families.

Mercado said the panel was directed by no less than Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito G. Galvez Jr. to conduct the camp visits. The panel has already made similar visits to camps Bilal and Busra in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur.

“We were instructed by our secretary to visit all the camps before finalizing all these plans which are designed to transform your camps into peaceful, progressive and resilient communities,” she said.

A brighter future

For his part, Hermoso, a former army colonel, recalled the more than four decades of armed conflict between the government and the Moro fronts which resulted in the destruction of numerous communities and claimed the lives of thousands of innocent civilians.

“How many lost their husbands? How many were orphaned? For the past 44 years, you have sadly been left behind,” he said.

Hermoso said the “all-out war” in 2001 wherein Camp Abubakar became the main battleground was a dark chapter in the Bangsamoro people’s history. Everything, however, turned around after the signing of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) in 2014.

With the peace agreement, he said the war between the government and the MILF had ended. The visit of Galvez, who was then AFP chief of staff, to the MILF’s Camp Darapan and MILF Chairman Ebrahim Murad’s trip to Camp Aguinaldo further reinforced the peace pact.

Hermoso, who also heads the Joint Peace and Security Committee, one of the several Normalization bodies under the CAB, said 200 Joint Peace and Security Teams (JPSTs) shall be created to ensure the security of residents within the MILF camps.

He said the JPSTs will be composed of soldiers, policemen and members of the MILF’s Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF). This teams will serve until the new Bangsamoro transition government ends its term in 2022.

Hermoso said that once the BIAF members have fulfilled their duties with the JPSTs, they will then transition into livelihood activities. As part of the process, they will be profiled to determine who among them can work as farmers, fishermen, students or entrepreneurs.

“You will all have work. There will be socio-economic programs available so all of you can earn a living,” he said.

“We are no longer counterparts but peace partners. Let us all move forward to a brighter future,” Hermoso said.

Decommissioning process and camps transformation

Meanwhile, Panel member Mr Ariel Hernandez said the first phase of the decommissioning process for the ex-fighters will officially start on September 7 of this year and will end by around March the following year.

He said a key component of the process are the socio-economic and education packages to be provided to the former combatants and their families.

“The key to ending poverty is education. This is the reason why the government is providing significant funds for education under the Normalization track,” Hernandez said.

He also emphasized the need for the decommissioning process and camps transformation to be carried out simultaneously.

Hernandez said the initial initiatives of the Joint Task Force on Camps Transformation included exposure tours for MILF-BIAF front and base commanders.

“This is what we call modelling. We want them (commanders) to see what is happening outside the camps,” he said, adding the participants of these tours can apply what they have learned when they return to their respective camps.

Hernandez also underscored the need for members of the community to be an integral part of the planning and implementation process, particularly in the crafting of development plans for their respective camps.

“When we plan, the community should always be involved. Outsiders shouldn’t do [all] the planning for you. You should take the lead on this,” he said.

“No one will be left behind. All of us will be working together. We now have a bright future ahead of us,” Hernandez said.

In the meantime, Diciano said he had seen in the former warriors their desire for genuine peace and sustainable development.

He said there is thus a need for members of these MILF communities to work hand in hand with the government in order to ensure the success of the Normalization process.

“Let us put together our efforts so that we can put an end to all the bad things that have happened. Let us plan well so that development will be sustainable and will benefit all,” he said. ###

http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1839/gov---t-implementing-panel-visits-milf---s-camp-abubakar

NDF/Sison: Comment on Duterte’s daring the US to fire the first shot in the West Philippine Sea

Jose Maria Sison propaganda statement posted to the National Democratic Front Philippines (NDFP or NDF) Website (Jul 6, 2019): Comment on Duterte’s daring the US to fire the first shot in the West Philippine Sea

By Jose Maria Sison

NDFP Chief Political Consultant

July 6, 2019

Duterte dares US to declare war with China Inquirer.net | July 6, 2019

1. There is no need for the US to fire the first shot against Chinese intruders in the West Philippine Sea. Unlike Duterte and his subordinates, the Vietnamese and Indonesian authorities have been able to apprehend and even burn Chinese boats intruding into their respective seas as defined by the UNCLOS. And no war with China has ensued.

2. Without firing a single shot, the US can easily instruct its following within the military and police forces under Duterte to take him into custody as a traitor and to install vice president Robredo as the constitutional successor, with the expectation that she can do what the Vietnamese and Indonesian authorities have been able to do against Chinese intruders.

3. On behalf of the Philippines and in accordance with the UNCLOS and the PAC judgment in favor of the Philippines, Robredo can order the filing of cases in the US and other countries, where China has substantial assets, in order to compel China to pay rent for occupying the artificial islands and compensation for the serious damage to the marine environment in the West Philippine Sea.

4. Why does Duterte expose himself so blatantly as a traitor, coward or even a moron? It is because China holds him by the balls. He has been heavily bribed to talk and act as he does. It is already of public knowledge that Duterte and his cronies have privately benefited from so many shady deals with China (high interest loans, overpriced infrastructure projects, oil and gas exploration, telco contract, casinos and tourist projects,etc.) aside from collaboration with the Chinese criminal triads involved in the smuggling of drugs and other goods.

5. And why does the US refrain from doing No. 2 above? It is because it is still trying to use Duterte to crack down on the revolutionary movement and to make charter change to allow 100 per cent foreign ownership of corporations engaged in the exploitation of land and natural resources and operation of all types of businesses. But like Marcos, Duterte can still be junked by the US when he becomes more of a liability than an asset to US interests.

https://www.ndfp.org/comment-on-dutertes-daring-the-us-to-fire-the-first-shot-in-the-west-philippine-sea/

CPP/NPA-Bicol Region: Hinggil sa sunud-sunod na pamamasalang sa bayan ng Caramoan

NPA-Bicol Region propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Jul 6, 2019): Hinggil sa sunud-sunod na pamamasalang sa bayan ng Caramoan

NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY

RAYMUNDO BUENFUERZA

NPA-BICOL REGION (ROMULO JALLORES COMMAND)

JULY 06, 2019

Mariing kinukundena ng Romullo Jallores Command ang pamamaril ng mga ahente ng estado sa dating kapitan ng Brgy. Antolon, Caramoan na si Albert Caballero Villarete noong ika-2 ng Hulyo habang nagmamaneho ng motorsiklo patungong Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Caramoan. Ayon sa mga saksi, nakilala ang suspek na si Sandy Santileses residente ng Brgy. Poloan, Caramoan. Si Santileses ay miyembro ng yunit ng CAFGU na hawak ng 83rd IBPA. Si Santileses din ang suspek sa pagpatay sa sibilyang si Manuel Nases residente ng bayan ng Caramoan, noong Setyembre 2017.

Ang naturang krimen ay naganap matapos ang pananalakay ng militar sa isang yunit ng Tomas Pilapil Command-BHB East Camarines Sur kung saan nabilang sa napatay si Norberto ‘Ka Obet’ Balcueva na residente rin ng Brgy. Antolon. Batay sa awtopsiya sa bangkay, liban sa tama ng bala, nagtamo si Ka Obet ng mga tama sa katawan at marka ng pagbali sa buto. Dahil dito, binabalak ng magsagawa ng isang fact finding mission hinggil sa kaso ng panonortyur at desekrasyon sa bangkay ni Ka Obet.

Tinarget ng militar si Villarete dahil sa progresibong rekord nito at dahil kababaryo nito si Ka Obet. Malaki ang pisibilidad na lumahok din ito sa fact finding mission. Ang biktimang si Villarete ay kilala sa kanyang mga progresibong tindig at may kasaysayan ng paglahok sa mga anti-pasistang pagkilos. Siya ang tumayong lider ng binuong alyansa laban sa militarisasyon sa kanilang bayan noong 2014.

Upang pagtakpan ang kanilang mga krimen. Nagmamadali ang militar na patahimikin ang mga indibidwal at organisasyong maaaring magsiwalat sa katotohanan sa publiko. Dahil nailalagay sa depensibang pusisyon ang militar at pulis bunsod ng sunud-sunod na kaso nila ng pamamaslang, pinalalaganap nila ang kasinungalingang ang rebolusyonaryong kilusan ang nasa likod ng mga karumal-dumal na pamamaslang.

Nananawagan ang RJC-Bikol sa lahat ng mga progresibong organisasyon, kagawad ng midya, taong-simbahan, upisyal ng lokal na gubyerno, propesyunal at iba pang sektor na kagyat magsagawa ng mga fact finding mission hinggil sa magkasunud-sunod na paglabag sa karapatang-tao sa bayan ng Caramoan. Dapat kagyat na ilantad sa publiko at mapigilan ang mga nakahilera pang pananalakay ng militar sa mga residente ng naturang bayan at iba pang bahagi ng rehiyon. Dapat singilin at panagutin ang militar at pulis sa pagtarget nila sa mga sibilyan at sa kanilang krimen laban sa mamamayan.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/hinggil-sa-sunud-sunod-na-pamamasalang-sa-bayan-ng-caramoan/

CPP/Sison: Duterte’s use of anti-communism and anti-terrorism for the fascist suppression of the Filipino people

Jose Maria Sison propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Jul 6, 2019): Duterte’s use of anti-communism and anti-terrorism for the fascist suppression of the Filipino people


JOSE MARIA SISON

CHIEF POLITICAL CONSULTANT

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES

JULY 06, 2019

A close reading of Executive Order No. 70, signed by Duterte on December 4, 2018 in order to create the National Task Force to End the Local Communist Armed Conflict, shows that it is a major step of his tyrannical rule to realize the imposition of a full-blown fascist dictatorship on the Filipino people and to reassure the US that he is still its puppet even if he makes a fast buck on the side from shady deals with China and the Chinese criminal triads.

Duterte’s order uses the expression “whole nation” approach. This is but a rehash of the long discredited and failed catchphrases, such as “total war” and “whole government” approach used by previous regimes to mean all-out war against the revolutionary movement of the people. But Duterte and his task force wish to wage psywar and mass murder on an unprecedented scale, even surpassing the standards of repression set by his idol Marcos.

The implementation of the order has proven its repulsive murderous and deceptive character and its antipeople and antidemocratic objectives. In touting what it deceptively calls a “whole nation” approach, the Duterte regime is doggedly trying to militarize the Duterte cabinet and entire reactionary government in order to turn the entire Filipino nation against itself and serve the interests of the imperialists and local exploiting classes under the pretext of anticommunism and anti-terrorism.

The tyrannical and terrorist regime seeks in vain to misrepresent and demonize the forces of the armed revolutionary movement and at the same time to tag and brand the forces and activists of the legal democratic movement of patriotic and progressive forces as “communist” and “terrorist”. Going to the extreme of absurdity, the regime blames both types of forces as the causes of underdevelopment, poverty and armed conflict.

The uppermost counterrevolutionary objective of the regime is to preserve the semicolonal and semifeudal ruling system in which foreign monopoly capitalism, domestic feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism exploit and oppress the people and to discredit, isolate and destroy all the national and democratic forces that fight for the national and social liberation of the Filipino nation and people.

The Duterte regime is using E.O 70 to militarize all branches and agencies of the reactionary government, the state educational and communications system, all nongovernmental institutions and organizations in order to terrorize the people and impose fascist rule on the entire Filipino people under the long-discredited Cold War and McCarthyite shibboleth of anti-communism and the latter-day Bushite pretense of anti-terrorism.

The Duterte regime’s methods for trying to suppress the legal democratic forces and the revolutionary movement of the people are similar to those employed in Oplan Tokhang in the bogus war on drugs. Scare tactics are used to exact mass compliance, compel barangay officials to list up poor people as drug addicts and pushers and subsequently use the list for murdering people by the tens of thousands.

General Año, the notorious butcher head of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), has ordered the local governments to list down rebel suspects, give the list to the death squads for action, hold fake surrender meetings and declare as persona non grata the revolutionary forces as well as the patriotic and progressive organizations. But he has failed miserably to discourage the people from participating and supporting the revolutionary movement despite the fanfare he tries to stir up in the press.

At all levels of the reactionary government, the regime’s political and military agents terrorize communities, organizations or individuals deemed as opposed to or critical of the regime by red-tagging them and branding them as communist, waging psywar campaigns against them and subjecting them to all forms of punitive measures, including harassments, arbitrary arrest on trumped up charges or planted evidence of firearms and explosives, extortion, torture, murder, bombing and arson, forced evacuation and “hamletting”.

Under the so-called Oplan Kapayapaan, now renamed Oplan Katatagan, the reactionary military and police officers are being corrupted by Duterte with discretionary funds for murdering rebel suspects in fake encounters, for staging fake surrenders under the Enhanced Comprehensive Local Integration Program and for arranging token projects and dole-outs under the Pamana Program, Peace and Development Program and Community Support Program.

Duterte’s military, police and paramilitary units have extremely limited capacity to deceive the people with token delivery of social services and dole-outs because the programs they operate are encumbered by corruption at various levels. Moreover, the pretenses at civic action or real acts of militarizing civilian functions are discredited by the atrocities being committed by the same or by other military and police units. In the first place, the economic, social and political conditions are rapidly worsening under the crisis-stricken ruling system.

After sabotaging the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and terminating them completely, Duterte and his sidekick General Galvez, his supposed presidential adviser, have utterly failed to realize their scheme of dividing the revolutionary movement through so-called localized peace talks which are preconditioned on surrender and self-humiliation. Since the announcement of the shallow deceptive scheme, all leading organs of the CPP and commands of the NPA at various levels have rebuffed the scheme and vowed to intensify the people’s war.

The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process has become a worse hotbed of corruption and bureaucratic intrigue than ever before. Its open function now is to prevent peace negotiations within the framework of the The Hague Joint Declaration, avoid addressing the basic roots of the armed conflict and use the false claim of localized peace negotiations to escalate the armed conflict, seek the total destruction of the people’s revolutionary movement by military means and support the imposition of fascist dictatorship on the Filipino people.

The broad masses of the Filipino people are fighting back against the tyrannical, treasonous, terrorist and corrupt Duterte regime. The anti-imperialist and democratic forces and the broad masses of the people in the Philippines are resolutely and vigorously exposing and opposing the regime’s gross and systematic violation of human rights in the civil, political, socioeconomic and cultural fields.

As in the time of the Marcos fascist dictatorship, the tyrannical and terrorist Duterte regime is unwittingly and practically forcing social activists and other people to join the armed revolution by threatening them with abduction and murder and is generating a public clamor for armed partisan and commando operations against the worst human rights violators and plunderers to obtain justice for the aggrieved people.

The tyrant and terrorist Duterte is now being widely ridiculed as having unwittingly become the No. 1 recruiter and No. 1 supply and transport officer of the people’s army by oppressing and exploiting the people and sending his armed minions to the countryside for annihilation in the people’s war.

The revolutionary forces in the countryside and urban underground have been tempered in more than 50 years of revolutionary struggle and have built strength in an extensive and deepgoing way among the people, especially the toiling masses.

According to their publications, the revolutionary forces of the people are intensifying the people’s war, carrying out social programs for the benefit of the people and building a people’s democratic government mainly in the countryside. ###

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/statement/dutertes-use-of-anti-communism-and-anti-terrorism-for-the-fascist-suppression-of-the-filipino-people/

CPP: Condemn killing of 3-year old in drug war

Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Jul 6, 2019): Condemn killing of 3-year old in drug war



The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today expressed strongest condemnation for the Philippine National Police over the death of 3-year old Myka Ulpina who was shot by police operatives last June 29 in “anti-drug” operations in Rodriguez, Rizal.

“The Party and all revolutionary forces expresses sympathy with Myka’s mother and family and supports their demand for justice,” said the CPP. Ulpina’s mother disputed claims of police that the toddler was used as human shield by her father, Renato.

“Myka joins the long list of victims of Duterte’s fascist drug war which targets the poor and oppressed whom Duterte has expressed complete contempt for,” added the CPP.

“The Party enjoins the thousands upon thousands of mothers, relatives and friends of victims of Duterte’s drug war to stand up, end their silence and unite in demanding justice.”

The CPP said “the Duterte regime must be made to account for its so-called ‘drug war’ which the police continues to wage relentlessly despite being proven a big failure in its declared objective of eradicating drug trafficking.”

“It has become very apparent that so-called drug operations by the PNP are actually liquidation operations mounted by criminal syndicates against their rivals,” pointed out the CPP. “The people have long grown tired of the police ‘nanlaban’ justification for the killings which they repeatedly invoke even if it makes them appear grossly incompetent in mounting their operations.”

The CPP said Duterte’s drug war is, in fact, a war among drug syndicates of which Duterte is the biggest of all protectors. “In connivance with Chinese drug syndicates, Duterte and his criminal cohorts in the military and police have facilitated the entry into the country of tons of shabu by deploying his trusted military officers in the Bureau of Customs as well as in the airports.”

The CPP said the criminal perpetrators behind the death of Myka, as well as thousand others summarily executed must be meted out punishment. The Party urges these police operatives to end their criminal operations against the people and make amends lest they become among the targets of NPA partisan units.

https://www.philippinerevolution.info/2019/07/06/condemn-killing-of-3-year-old-in-drug-war/

AFP-CRS: CPP-NPA terrorist killed farmer in Negros

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Jul 5, 2019): CPP-NPA terrorist killed farmer in Negros



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AFP-CRS: Gallant soldiers stopped second bomber, prevented more casualties

Posted to the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Civil Relations Service (AFP-CRS) Facebook Page (Jul 5, 2019): Gallant soldiers stopped second bomber, prevented more casualties



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