Twin fascists

Basahin ang artikulong ito sa Pilipino

With its latest statement on the human rights situation in the country, US imperialism is distancing itself from its own sordid human rights record and washing its hands of its own role in funding and training the reactionary Philippine Army.

In a US State Department paper entitled "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" released on February 28, the US said AFP and PNP forces were responsible for arbitrary, illegal, and in some cases, extrajudicial killings, abductions, torture and detention. The victims are usually civilians and revolutionary forces branded as "rebels." One of the most prominent cases was the arbitrary killing in November of striking workers at Hacienda Luisita by military and police forces.

US imperialism has no one else to blame for the AFP and PNP's record. From the start, it was the US government and armed forces that trained, indoctrinated and supported the AFP and the PNP. The latter are reflections of the US military's utterly fascist orientation as can be gleaned from the arbitrary detention and torture of suspected terrorists in US camps in Guantanamo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

07 March 2005
English Edition

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