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PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
Arroyo regime cannot defeat people's war even with US terrorist support -- CPP
October 21, 2004
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today brushed aside Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo�s declaration that it has the support of the United States in its effort to fight the armed revolutionary movement in the Philippines.
CPP spokesman Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal dismissed Arroyo's statements as empty threats.
"It is not the support of the US, the No. 1 international terrorist, that will determine the outcome of the current civil war in the Philippines. It is the support of the Filipino masses," Rosal said.
"In this regard, the New People's Army has the strategic advantage. As the crisis of the ruling system worsens, more and more people see the need to overthrow the oppressive and exploitative system," he added.
"More and more people join the NPA as the Arroyo regime carries out policies that compound the sufferings of the Filipino people. In a sense, Arroyo herself is an NPA recruiter," Rosal declared. "Arroyo's policies convince the people to carry out mass resistance and join the armed revolution."
Unlike the Arroyo government that has to rely on US support to carry out its counter-revolutionary war, the New People's Army is able to advance the revolutionary armed struggle self-reliantly, Rosal explained.
"It is the Arroyo regime that relies on its links with US international terrorism," Rosal said, in a takeoff from Arroyo's claim of "growing ties" between the revolutionary movement and so-called international terrorist groups.
Rosal moreover condemned Arroyo's statement calling for US support in its counter-revolutionary war as a total lack of historical perspective and a blatant disregard for Philippine sovereignty.
"US imperialism killed 1.5 million Filipinos in the Philippine-American War from 1898 to 1913 and has trampled on the Filipino people's national freedom many times in the past," Rosal said.
Reference:
Anne Buenaventura
Media Officer
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