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Political assassinations, a US trademark
Political assassinations are a trademark of US imperialism�s dirty tactics in its counterrevolutionary wars. When it launched its war against the Vietnamese people from 1964-75, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) also launched what it dubbed Operation Phoenix, a large-scale campaign of political assassination.
The US military maintained a list of targets for assassination: leading personalities who were influential or played a major role in the revolutionary struggle of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the People�s Army and the National Liberation Front (or Viet Cong). From 1968-1971, more than 40,000 were killed under Operation Phoenix.
Today�s mounting killings of leaders and members of progressive organizations in the Philippines were undoubtedly drawn by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) from doctrines taught by the CIA, if not directly from the US military through clandestine operatives and �military advisers� deployed in various AFP camps throughout the country.
A recent expos� disclosed the presence of over 70 US military officers and operatives working clandestinely in the Philippines.
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 21 March 2005
English Edition
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