Fascist State on a rampage:
Macapagal-Arroyo's terrorist and mercenary AFP and PNP are running amok in the countryside:
Statement by Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, Spokesperson, Communist Party of the Philippines

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

The terrorist and mercenary Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Philippine National Police (PNP) so taken care of and loved by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo are unbridledly raining terror in the Philippine countryside. Killings and other forms of military operations currently being waged by the AFP and PNP against the New People's Army (NPA) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front-Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Force (MILF-BIAF) are far more brutal and heinous. But it is ordinary people suspected by Macapagal-Arroyo's terrorists as part of the people's army's mass base who bear the brunt of the havoc wrought on lives and property and the wanton violations of human rights.

With every operation they undertake, the AFP and PNP make sure that civilians are drawn into the conflict, to terrorize the people who serve as the sea that the people's guerrillas swim in. Even with Macapagal-Arroyo's deranged all-out war (that Estrada had begun) against the Abu Sayyaf, those that sustain the greatest havoc are the helpless Moro civilians, lumad and Christians in the provinces of Basilan, Sulu and certain parts of Zamboanga.

It is in the countryside of Southern Tagalog where Macapagal-Arroyo's AFP and PNP have seemingly concentrated their heinous killings of Red fighters and captured hors de combat. Based on CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law) and the international laws of war it advances, prisoners must be given medical attention and taken care of by whichever side captures them. But even innocent civilians suspected of being NPA supporters become victims of terrible havoc and killings in the hands of government terrorists and butchers.

These are clear indications that sowing terror through counterrevolutionary campaigns now called Internal Security Operations (ISO) is a systematic policy of the Macapagal-Arroyo regime.

�Even if Macapagal-Arroyo has boasted of replacing Estrada's all-out war policy with an "all-out peace approach", it is clear from the data that attacks by the terrorist AFP and PNP on the NPA's guerrilla fronts have continued and have in fact intensified.

Macapagal-Arroyo's AFP is continuing the Estrada regime's Internal Security Operations (ISO) as the leading aspect of the counterrevolutionary campaign now known as Campaign Plan Balangai. This counterrevolutionary campaign has been strongly influenced by the "Back to Basics" orientation and other operational doctrines outlined by the US. The "Back to Basics" orientation is none other than the purely militarist reorientation of the AFP and PNP doctrine on counterrevolutionary campaigns and operations towards the use of the most brutal fascist means of suppressing the revolutionary forces and civilians believed to be aligned with or supportive of the revolutionary movement - a return to the most terroristic means of suppression implemented by the AFP during the fascist rule of the dictator Marcos. This doctrine sets aside civilian operations (such as Civilian Military Operations, SYP-type Special Operations Teams, the "development" phase of the Clear-Hold-Consolidate-Develop strategy and the like). They have completely discarded the "winning people's heart's and minds" orientation, saying that this is a job for civilian agencies. It is supposedly the AFP's job to fight. Their preferred method of fighting is one that would showcase their military superiority. They have no qualms about involving civilians because this is supposedly a part of war. They leave civilian agencies to attend to those who may be drawn into the conflict.

With hardly a year in office, Macapagal-Arroyo has unleashed the ferocity of the entire AFP machinery to commit more heinous violations of human rights and launch attacks against the people. Even with the new regime in power for so short a time, human rights violations have become more vicious compared to those during Estrada's time. This is the only way Macapagal-Arroyo knows of repaying the people who struggled to oust Estrada and paved the way for her ascension as the country's president.

And it is the mercenary, reactionary and thoroughly corrupt AFP and PNP that Macapagal-Arroyo so loves and always places at the top of her priorities (in terms of the budget and promotions) that are her leading instruments in attacking and sowing terror among the people. Like the Abu Sayyaf bandits, it is the AFP and PNP that are the real terrorists. The difference is that the Abu Sayyaf's main targets are those who could afford to pay ransom, while the mercenary and terrorist AFP and PNP victimize mainly the impoverished toiling masses.

October 2001
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