Comrade Marcel
15th September 2002, 19:55
This is extracted & modified from: KMU under attack as those who terrorise factories
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The US War on Terrorism is being played out in drama and tragedy in the Philippines, with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo launching an all-out war against domestic armed rebellion, championing growing US military intervention in the Philippines, and suppressing the legal protest movement, and to sideline her political opponents in the 2004 Presidential Elections.
Send protest letters to:
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Malacanang Palace,
Manila, Philippines
2600
Fax: + 63 2 733 1102
Email: [email protected]
President George W Bush
White House, Washington DC, USA
Fax: +1 202-456-2461
Mr Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary-General
New York, USA
Fax: +1 212 963 7055
Prime Minister Jean Chretien
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
email: [email protected]
Suggested text:
I strongly object to the recent decision by the Philippines government to launch an all-out war on the New Peoples Army and on leftwing civilian opposition movements, in the name of the war on terrorism. In particular, I condemn President Arroyos attack on those who terrorise factories in the same breath as she launched her all-out war on armed rebels. This is a thinly veiled call for military repression of the Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Center, a legal trade union movement with over 400,000 members, which has nothing to do with armed rebellion. The longstanding internal conflicts in the Philippines, between the government on the one hand and the Moro independence movement in Mindanao and the communist New Peoples Army on the other, has nothing to do with the terrible terror attacks in the USA last September. The same applies to the recent US decision to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines as a foreign terrorist organisation, when in fact the CPP is a legal political party which has never attacked the USA or anyone else outside the territory of the Philippines. By making the anti-terrorist campaign stretch to take in longstanding liberation movements, the US and the Philippines government can only discredit their otherwise legitimate expectation of support for action against those who attacked the USA in September 2001. The Philippines has been engaged in peace talks with both the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, a process which can allow genuine anti-poverty programs to develop. But all-out war against big parts of the population, including civilians, who have real grievances, can only lead to disaster in the Philippines and greater economic and social problems in the Asia Pacific region. I call on the Canadian government to speak out against this terrible development in the Philippines, and to use all its diplomatic resources to reverse these dangerous moves by the US and the Philippines governments.
read the entire text available @ http://kewlb0x.shr00mz.org/mistax/doc/phcp.doc
The US War on Terrorism is being played out in drama and tragedy in the Philippines, with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo launching an all-out war against domestic armed rebellion, championing growing US military intervention in the Philippines, and suppressing the legal protest movement, and to sideline her political opponents in the 2004 Presidential Elections.
Send protest letters to:
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Malacanang Palace,
Manila, Philippines
2600
Fax: + 63 2 733 1102
Email: [email protected]
President George W Bush
White House, Washington DC, USA
Fax: +1 202-456-2461
Mr Kofi Annan
United Nations Secretary-General
New York, USA
Fax: +1 212 963 7055
Prime Minister Jean Chretien
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, K1A 0A2
Fax: 613-941-6900
email: [email protected]
Suggested text:
I strongly object to the recent decision by the Philippines government to launch an all-out war on the New Peoples Army and on leftwing civilian opposition movements, in the name of the war on terrorism. In particular, I condemn President Arroyos attack on those who terrorise factories in the same breath as she launched her all-out war on armed rebels. This is a thinly veiled call for military repression of the Kilusang Mayo Uno Labor Center, a legal trade union movement with over 400,000 members, which has nothing to do with armed rebellion. The longstanding internal conflicts in the Philippines, between the government on the one hand and the Moro independence movement in Mindanao and the communist New Peoples Army on the other, has nothing to do with the terrible terror attacks in the USA last September. The same applies to the recent US decision to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines as a foreign terrorist organisation, when in fact the CPP is a legal political party which has never attacked the USA or anyone else outside the territory of the Philippines. By making the anti-terrorist campaign stretch to take in longstanding liberation movements, the US and the Philippines government can only discredit their otherwise legitimate expectation of support for action against those who attacked the USA in September 2001. The Philippines has been engaged in peace talks with both the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, a process which can allow genuine anti-poverty programs to develop. But all-out war against big parts of the population, including civilians, who have real grievances, can only lead to disaster in the Philippines and greater economic and social problems in the Asia Pacific region. I call on the Canadian government to speak out against this terrible development in the Philippines, and to use all its diplomatic resources to reverse these dangerous moves by the US and the Philippines governments.