Karapatan-Bikol’s Statement on the 65th-year commemoration of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights
December 10, 2013
Reference: Vince Casilihan
Cellphone number: 09481390488
Reference: Vince Casilihan
Cellphone number: 09481390488
The people must denounce and fight the US-Aquino regime in
its all-out sponsorship of the rotten political system which spawns corruption,
deceives the people with the lies of “Matuwid na Daan”, and institutionalizes
militarization as the state’s foremost fangs of oppression and primary defense
of the ruling system’s evils.
The ever-decaying ruling system gravely damages the people.
Bureaucrat Capitalism, essentially the ruling class’ mode of running government
as a money-making enterprise, breeds the extensive and deeply-rooted corruption.
While the people labor in creating the nation’s wealth, they are being robbed
of their yield by landlords and big capitalists elected into public office.
They are denied services and rights while politicians wallow in stolen money.
With the Pork Barrel King Noynoy Aquino at the forefront of
corruption, his regime babbles on the deceitful “Matuwid na Daan” rhetoric in
order to conceal their theft. Subsidized by public funds, Aquino the Lord of
Thieves employs his Public Relations experts with the exclusive task of
distorting the truth and depicting him as the “Nemesis of Corruption” in the
face of glaring evidences of his theft and crookedness in government.
Worst, Aquino’s regime intensifies militarization as its fundamental
buttress in perpetuating power. Generals of the Armed Forces of the Philippines
likewise bloat with the people’s money in exchange for their compliance in the armed
suppression of the people’s resistance. AFP’s attacks on the lives and
livelihoods of the people in the name of Oplan Bayanihan has the ultimate goal
of quelling the people’s militant fight and keeping Aquino and his class in
power.
But regardless of intensified Oplan Bayanihan, the people do
not cower. Instead, they seethe with anger at the AFP’s violation of their
rights. In particular, Bicolano masses are enraged at the 9th
Infantry Division Philippine Army’s brutal counter-insurgency campaign in the
region. Those condemning Aquino’s evils, those resolute in advancing the rights
and welfare of the oppressed and exploited, are the ones being attacked and targetted
for murder by the mercenaries of the regime. Under Aquino’s three years in
power, Karapatan-Bicol has documented 1, 255 cases of human rights violations in the region.
These violations have attacked 13, 906
individuals, 38 of whom are victims of extrajudicial killings.
It is just to loathe 9th ID’s aggression on the
Bicolano people. But beyond battling human rights violations being committed by
the AFP, the people ultimately direct their rage against the rotten ruling
system. They remain firm in fighting in order to gradually defeat a rotten system
that steals public funds, poisons the people’s minds, and assaults just
struggles.###
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