{"article":{"id":14278,"heading":"This compares the Philipines with Colombia","author":"stop imperialism! support self determination!","created":"2002-01-23 15:44:36","modified":"2002-01-23 16:00:03","last_modified":"Wed, 23 Jan 2002 23:00:03","article":"

>Direct Attacks are the Only Missing Factor for the Philippines

>to be Afghanistan --

> KMP [Peasant Movement of the Philippines]

>

>\"At this stage, the only missing factor for the Philippines to be the

>Afghanistan are the direct attacks by US military troops,\" says the

>militant Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) in the weekly press

>forum Kapihan sa Cypress, today.

>

>KMP chair Rafael Mariano said \"the US stepped-up its military assistance

>to the Macapagal-Arroyo government. The US is now funding military

>hardware, providing military training, intelligence and US troops

>deployment in combat theaters, particularly in Mindanao.\"

>

>The KMP chair likened the present aggression by the US to the

>Philippines to the role played by the US in Colombia. \"Under 'Plan

>Colombia', the counter-insurgency operation of the Colombian government,

>the US played a significant role in the counter-insurgency operations of

>the Colombian government. These are all under the guise of combating

>drugs.

>

>\"The US intensified its military support to the insurgency operations of

>the Colombian government through Pentagon and the Central Intelligence

>Agency. Today, camouflaged by its war against terrorism, the US is

>playing a major role in the Macapagal government's counter-insurgency

>program, from supplying war materiel up to the deployment of its

>mercenary troops to combat fields,\" Mariano said.

>

>The KMP chief added that US military troops are scattered in over 100

>countries around the world. \"This forms part of the US' strategic

>pre-positioning of its military forces around the globe for its

>geopolitical agenda, by identifying the Philippines as one of the

>so-called 'rouge nations' in the world.\"

>

>The group also assailed the President, Gen. Angelo Reyes, National

>Security Adviser Roilo Golez and AFP Chief of Staff Diomedio Villanueva

>Jr. for its flimsy justification that the troops are only here for

>military exercises.

>

>\"How can the fascist President and her militarist disciples, like Gen.

>Reyes, Gen. Villanueva and Golez differentiate military training in the

>combat field from direct military combat? This is an open display of US

>intervention in the country's internal affairs and aggression against

>the Filipino people,\" Mariano said.

>

>The KMP called for the junking of the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement

>(MLSA) and continually struggle for the abrogation of the US-RP Mutual

>Defense Treaty and the Visiting Forces Agreement. The peasant group

>also urged the Filipino people to fight US intervention in the country

>disguised as a war against global terrorism and crushing the bandit

>group Abu Sayyaf.

>

>\"We urge the Filipino people to continue the fight for our long-desired

>national sovereignty, territorial integrity against US neo-colonial

>rule, intervention and aggression,\" the peasant group said. #

>

>

>Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP)

>Peasant Movement of the Philippines

>URL: http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/kmp_ph<\/a>

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