Sa panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Ka Satur Ocampo, presidente ng MAKABAYAN Coalition hiningi ang kanyang opinyon hinggil sa inilabas na Board of Inquiry (BOI) Report kaugnay sa insidente sa Mamasapano.
Thousands of students walked out of classes today to call for the resignation of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III over the Mamasapano offensive a day after the Board of Inquiry released their report on the bloody operations.
The students also condemned the “unlimited” tuition hikes under the Aquino government. They called for justice for Rosana Sanfuego and Kristel Tejada, students who took their lives after they were unable to pay for tuition and campus fees.
University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman walkout
The students opposed the “yellow-washing” of the Mamasapano investigations and condemned the Aquino government’s efforts to “cover-up and hide the truth from the public.”
In UP, campus administrators including UP Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan and several college deans took part in the protests.
UP Diliman walkout
UP Diliman
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) Manila walkout
Campus walkouts started at 10am and “blackout” marches in campuses were held in the afternoon.
Students from the University of the East, Ateneo de Manila University, Miriam College, National Teachers College and many others also held campus “Blackout Protests for Justice.” Similar youth protests were also held in Baguio, Pampanga, Laguna, Legazpi, Iloilo, Cebu, Cagayan de Oro, and Davao.
Univeristy of Sto Tomas (UST) walkout
Monumento, Caloocan City
“The BOI report further exposes BS Aquino as a liar and a traitor. That American soldiers were seen in the command posts confirms that they were running the show. Aquino betrayed the nation and sacrificed the lives of Filipinos in the altar of US terror war. Buking na buking na po kayo ng taumbayan, Mr. PNoychio,” said Vencer Crisostomo, national chairperson of Anakbayan.
Crisostomo meanwhile said the BOI report may have already been doctored when it was not released immediately to “yellow-wash” President Aquino’s role. He also said the refusal to continue the hearings in the lower house, the termination of the Senate hearings and the suspension order on Makati Mayor Junjun Binay are part of efforts to “misdirect and deceive.”
University of the Philippines (UP) Manila walkout
UP Manila
“Aquino is entangled in his own web of lies. His desperate efforts anger the Filipino people further. Today we walkout against BS; no more lies, no more injustice, no more impunity,” he said.
Videos of the UP Diliman walkout can be viewed in the Anakbayan facebook page by clicking the following links:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1059433084072121
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1059433974072032
(Photos and videos are from Anakbayan National Office)
Open letter to nationalist, pro-people AFP and PNP troops
OPEN LETTER
By OMAR IBARRA
Spokesperson, NPA Western Agusan Norte-Agusan Sur Subregional Command
26 February 2015
Warm greetings!
The recent turn of events challenges you to make a stand.
The near-annihilation of the 84th SAF-PNP troops in Maguindanao shows the division and dissension of your ranks in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and and Philippine National Police. This is how it
happened: under US orders for the capture of an alleged terrorist
under the framework of its “war on terror”, your commander-in-chief, Benigno Aquino III, violated your chain of command and all due processes, through a faction of generals led by General Purisima.
Despite the ongoing ceasefire and peace negotiations between the
government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front, Aquino ran over all agreements to implement the US
orders. Now, he and his officials exhaust all efforts to wash their
hands of culpability after wasting the lives of 44 SAF personnel.
This incident clearly indicates the ineptness of your commander-in-chief in mobilizing your forces. He only complies with the dictates of his imperialist master and his local instigators. Now it has resulted in endless bickering and finger-pointing among military and civilian officials, and has undermined the morale of the whole organization of AFP and PNP.
Even in areas of the New People’s Army, particularly here in Front
88, Aquino uses you under the design and in furtherance of the
interests of US imperialism and local ruling classes.
You are aware that the AFP and PNP brings, not genuine peace and
development, but terrorism to our area in order to pave the way for
the entry of the foreign company, Metro Luxury Mining.
Aside from combat operations, your psy-war and intelligence activities under COPD have intimidated the lumad and peasant masses here. They are further terrorized by the activities of your counterrevolutionary paramilitary groups such as Bagani Force in La Paz, Loreto and San Luis, and Wild Dogs or BULIF in Esperanza and Las Nieves. These have resulted in the forced evacuation of families in their hundreds in a score of communities in San Luis, for several weeks now. Can you then say that you are waging a war against terrorism when your government itself sows terror against the people in furtherance of foreign economic interests?
We are aware that most of you, like us, come from the poor classes,
and that you are only forced to become soldiers and policemen because of the lack of better employment opportunities so you can feed your families. It must be made clear, however, that your service only
benefits a few foreign and local exploiters, while you suppress the
just struggle of the poor.
While you are being used as pawns in this war, you are also used by
your senior officials in enriching themselves. Taking for instance the so-called modernization programs of AFP and PNP. Have you benefited from the billions of pesos of funds allocated for these? Are you aware of the modus operandi concerning the Balik-Baril program where higher military officials pocket most of the funds allocated for fake NPA surrenderees and recycled firearms?
Despite the massive defeat in Maguindanao, should you trust your lives to Aquino as commander-in-chief after he denied culpability in such failure and failed to express sympathy to the families and loved ones of those killed?
Aquino has a lot to answer for, not only to you soldiers and policemen but to the whole Filipino people who are victimized by US imperialism’s economic and political aggression. His puppetry to
foreign interests and dictates, as well as his state terrorism against his own people, gives a push to intensifying calls for his ouster from Malacañang.
While the movement for the ouster of Aquino rages, we appeal to your
nationalist and humanitarian stand. You have a significant role in the removal of an inept president from power as exemplified by your
withdrawal of support from Marcos and Estrada. Arroyo, on the other
hand, was almost ousted when soldiers and policemen mutinied against massive corruption, violence and fraudulence.
Thus we encourage you to take the side of the broad people, especially the poor, against the trampling of our integrity and dignity as Filipino people by US imperialism. While you are serving the reactionary government, we implore you to avoid abusing the human rights of the masses, respect the people’s call for the withdrawal of COPD troops and their struggle against CADC and big mining and other foreign corporations.
Most importantly, you should make a stand and make common cause with the people’s call for the ouster of your commander-in-chief, Benigno Aquino III.
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa naganap na senate hearing tungkol sa Mamasapano encounter.
February 10, 2015
3. Mararamdaman ang galit at biased na kaagad na pagtingin ni Senator Alan Peter Cayetano laban sa MILF at BIFF at gusto pa niyang pag-awayin ang dalawang grupo para patunayan ang sinseridad sa usapang pangkapayapaan ng MILF sa pamahalaan. Sinabi rin niyang kinakanlong ng mga grupong ito si Marwan. Ano po ang inyong masasabi dito?
JMS: Malamang na sumasakay si Cayetano sa Christian chauvinism o sa mga ready-made bias laban sa mga Muslim. Pero kailangang magpaliwanag ang MILF at BIFF kung si Marwan ay kinukupkop nila. Sa personal na tingin ko, mahirap na sabihin na naroon si Marwan sa Mamasapano dahil walang corpus delicti o bangkay ni Marwan ngayon. At malamang na nagsisinungaling ang FBI tungkol sa DNA analysis para lamang tulungan nito ang propaganda ni Aquino.
Tanggap naman ng FBI na wala silang sample ng DNA ni Marwan mismo kundi ng mga supposed relatives niya. Sabi ng MNLF na nasa Lanao si Marwan at wala siya sa baryo ng Mamasapano na sinalakay ng SAF. Siyanga pala, bale sina Aquino, Purisima at SAF ang sumalakay sa baryo ng Mamasapano. Sabi pa ni Napeñas na SAF ang nagmasaker ng 250 katao sa Mamasapano. Paanong may kasalanan ang MILF. Hindi pwede.
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa naganap na senate hearing tungkol sa Mamasapano encounter.
February 10, 2015
2. Parang maaabswelto pa yata si Purisima bilang operator ng
Oplan Exodus at madidiin ng husto si Napeñas. May komento po ba kayo sa bagay na ito?
JMS: Si General Napeñas talaga ang piniling maging fall guy para pagtakpan ang responsabilidad nina Purisima at Aquino. Pero nasabi na niya dati na si Purisima ang nasa command at calling the shots mula sa kanyang White House sa Camp Crame. Sabi rin niya sa Senado na si Purisima ang nagdala sa kanya kay Aquino sa Pangarap (house niya). Kalokohan talaga na pinalilitaw ng mga alipures ni Aquino sa Senado at media na walang pananagutan sina Aquino at Purisima.
(Photo/Gen.Purisima?Interaksyon.com)
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa naganap na senate hearing tungkol sa Mamasapano encounter.
February 10, 2015
1. Sa senate hearing kanina, malaking pansin na wala sinuman sa
mga heneral ng PNP, SAF at AFP na nagtukoy na kasama nila sa operasyon sina President Noynoy Aquino at ang US, o kung ang mga ito ay may papel sa Mamasapano encounter. Ano po ang inyong pagtingin sa ganitong kaisipan ng mga kasundaluhan at kapulisan ng pamahalaan?
JMS: Ang US ang nagmamando kay Aquino mismo sa pinakamataas na antas. At si Aquino naman ay sadyang umakto sa labas ng chain of command ng PNP at AFP. Sapat na sa kanya na si Purisima at Napeñas ang inuutusan niya. Siya lang ang makakapagpakilos sa suspendidong PNP chief na Purisima at halos 400 kawal ng SAF nang walang pakialamanan ang PNP officer in charge na si General Espina.
Si Aquino at Ochoa ang madalas na may contact sa mga Amerikano na nasa Joint Staff. Nasa US drone command base sila sa Zamboanga City. Lantaran ang pakialam ng US sa Oplan Wolverine o Exodus. Binalak at ginawa ang oplan sa balangkas ng tinaguriang war on terror ng US. Ang US ang naghahabol kay Marwan at may alok pang malaking reward money. Merong US drone na nagsubaybay sa assault team. May Amerikanong namatay sa operation. At Evergreen helicopter ng CIA at mga American officers ay kitang kita sa retrato ng retrieval operation sa mga patay at sugatan ng SAF.
(Photo/Gen.Napenas/Interaksyon.com)
Panayam ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa damdamin ng mamamayan sa Mamasapano encounter
February 6, 2015
1. Kagaya ng dapat asahan sa sinapit ng SAF 44, nahahati ngayon ang saloobin ng mga pamilya at kaibigan ng mga nasawi. Hindi pa rin malaman ng mga tao ano ang tunay na saloobin ng mga natira pang SAF commandos dahil nang humarap si Pnoy sa kanila ay wala man lang kumibo kahit isa. Ano ang inyong obserbasyon hinggil ditto?
JMS: Natural na galit ang mga kawal at opisyal ng SAF kay Aquino. Alam na alam nila na si Aquino at si Purisima ang nagbigay ng go-signal sa pagpasok ng SAF sa teritoryo ng MILF. Alam din nila na si Aquino ang nagbigay ng stand down order para hindi matulungan ng 315 SAF ang mga napalaban na 77 SAF.
2. Ano po ang inyong masasabi sa mga nananawagan na magbitiw na sa pwesto ang pangulo? Sa inyong pagtingin, gagawin po ba ito ni Noynoy?
JMS: May malakas na katwiran ang mga nagdedemanda ng resignation ni Aquino. Dapat managot siya sa mga krimen niya. Habang nagtatagal na presidente si Aquino, marami pang krimen ang magagawa niya, sa korupsyon at abusadong paggamit ng pwersang militar. Syempre, ayaw magresign si Aquino. Pero sapilitang magresign na siya kung napakalakas na ang mga kilos masa laban sa kanya. Posibleng mas gustuhin niya na magresign kaysa mapatalsik na basag ang ulo niya.
Aquino cover-up
To the fallen 44’s relatives, the self-proclaimed “Father of the Nation” said he feels for them just as if he had lost 44 of his “children”. SAF Director Napenas is being set up as the definitive fall guy in keeping with Aquino’s habit of blaming everyone else but himself and his inner circle for any failures in his administration. Aquino accepts the resignation of suspended PNP Director Purisima, Aquino’s BFF (best friend forever), for reasons known only to him.
Aquino vows to get Usman (the other “terrorist” that got away) and cajoles the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to please help or at least “do not interfere” (as in, don’t shoot our police when they come after him). He then threatens the full might of the state against unspecified groups “who have lost their way”, presumably the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), in a bid to satisfy those whose idea of justice is to get even through “all-out war”.
At the outset and in conclusion Aquino plays the “peace” card. The SAF commandoes attacked the MILF stronghold to achieve “peace”. (No, they were not just serving warrants of arrest for Marwan and Usman.) Aquino considers the MILF “brothers on the path to peace”. (Too bad the ceasefire agreement integral to the GPH-MILF peace talks was breached by the Marwan operation, unleashing untold deleterious consequences on the peace process). And a “widespread and lasting peace” should be the primary focus of one and all. (Truth, accountability and justice are all secondary or perhaps even irrelevant.)
Aquino takes pains to paint Marwan as an extremely evil and dangerous man, wanted by both Indonesian and Philippine governments for mass bombings and for leading an Al Qaeda-linked terrorist group in the region. The description of Marwan as the alleged “Bin Laden of Asia” or Southeast Asia is exaggerated media hype; such is not what is stated even in FBI dossiers.
In fact there is no conclusive evidence till now that Marwan, Jemaah Islamiya, the ASG or any Moro/Islamic “terrorists” are behind the bombings in Mindanao and the National Capital Region. Let’s not forget the US fellow Meiring who accidentally set off a bomb in his hotel room in Davao but was whisked out of the country by US authorities beyond any investigation by local police. Let us also call to mind the Magdalo mutineers who pointed to their superiors as having ordered them to throw grenades at public places and implicated then AFP Chief Angelo Reyes and ISAFP head Victor Corpuz in the insidious plots to sow mayhem.
Based on a mere FBI certification (which the public, by the way, cannot independently verify) that DNA tests indicate it is Marwan the SAF commandoes had killed in their assault, Aquino declares Oplan Wolverine a “triumph” albeit with a “heave price”. To many observers, it seemed a foregone conclusion that US lab tests would show the SAF teams got their man. A negative result would have meant the entire Marwan operation was an unmitigated failure.
But even assuming that the FBI claim is true, does one dead “terrorist” justify the illegal command by a suspended general; the unnecessary deaths of 44 SAF, 18 MILF, 2 BIFF and 6 civilians; and the outright violation of the ceasefire agreement between government and the MILF that had held without incident for the past two years?
Marwan’s supposed demise is being used in the same way Osama Bin Laden’s supposed death was used: to falsely claim that the world is safer from terrorism because of the US-led “war on terror”; to justify draconian anti-terror measures violative of people’s democratic and human rights; and to deodorize the atrocities perpetrated in the name of countering terrorism through imperialist wars of intervention, aggression and occupation.
Aquino crows that many lives have been saved because Marwan has been neutralized. The question begs to be asked, were many lives saved by the killing of Bin Laden (assuming that he is indeed dead if we believe the US claim hook, line and sinker)? Has “terrorism” ended with the killing of these leaders? Let us recall that in 2001, US troops joined the AFP in Balikatan war exercises directed against about 300 members of the homegrown Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). The Philippine armed forces then said they had reduced the ASG to a few score men. Nowadays, authorities concede that the ASG appears to be continuously growing like the proverbial amoeba despite one counterterrorist campaign after another.
The truth is, in a bid to follow the orders of his US bosses to go after Marwan in this fatally flawed operation (also out of Aquino’s sheer incompetence, narrow-mindedness and arrogance) Aquino gambled the entire peace process with the MILF. Aquino is now scrambling to salvage what is left of efforts to legislate the Bangsamoro Basic Law that hangs on the brink of interminable delays if not potential defeat.
The Aquino regime is carrying on the policy and practice of the previous Arroyo regime of blind, uncritical support for the so-called war on terror and compliance with US dictates. This is not the first time the result has been at the expense of peace negotiations. In the case of the GPH peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the US designation of NDFP Chief Political Consultant and the CPP-NPA as “terrorists” with the full collaboration of the Arroyo regime resulted in years of delays in the talks until the end of the Arroyo term.
What is critical at this point is to unmask the continuing efforts to cover up the truth and evade accountability by: 1) fudging Aquino’s critical role in the bungled operation as Commander-in-Chief, particularly his criminal abuse of authority in disregarding the chain of command; 2) reducing the bloody fiasco to operational lapses and bad decisions of the commander-on-ground in order to shift the blame to him; 3) denying Purisima’s role as an illegal commander in order to shield Aquino and Purisima; 4) encouraging an anti-MILF hate campaign to also shift the blame on the MILF while making loud noises about wanting to push the peace process forward; 5) going through the motions of filing cases against the MILF and BIFF commanders to appease those who are crying for MILF and BIFF blood; 6) trying to appease the relatives of 44 SAF by means of financial assistance and false paeans to them as heroes; 7) continuing blackout regarding the US role in Oplan Wolverine; 8) claiming the Marwan kill with US complicity so that operation is not exposed as a complete failure.
Aquino and Purisima are both criminally liable. At the minimum, Aquino should resign while Purisima’s resignation should not allow him to escape criminal liability.
There must be no impunity for the Mamasapano bloodbath. #
Published in Business World
9 February 2015
Panayan ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa pangalawang pahayag sa publiko ni Presidente Noynoy Aquino tungkol sa Mamasapano tragedy.
Pebrero 6, 2015
4.Bahagi pa rin ng kanyang talumpati ang paniningil sa BIFF at
MILF na tila bagang ang mga ito ang dapat singilin sa sinapit ng SAF 44.
Ano po ang masasabi ninyo dito?
JMS: Ang unang singilin sa pagpapahamak sa mga namatay na SAF 44 at iba pang tao ay sina Aquino, Purisima at si Ochoa. Ang tatlong ito ang pinakaunang dahilan sa pagkamatay ng mga SAF. Sila ang managot kung bakit hindi sila gumawa muna ng konsultasyon at koordinasyon sa MILF. Hindi nangyari ang sagupaan sa Mamasapano kung iginalang nila ang ceasefire agreement sa MILF.
Panayan ng Kodao Productions kay Prof. Jose Maria Sison hinggil sa pangalawang pahayag sa publiko ni Presidente Noynoy Aquino tungkol sa Mamasapano tragedy.
Pebrero 6, 2015
1. Ano po ang inyong masasabi sa pangkabuuan ng ipinahayag ngayong
gabi ni President Noynoy Aquino hinggil sa usapin pa rin ng Mamasapano
tragedy?
JMS: Hindi totoong tumatanggap ng responsabilidad si Noynoy sa unnecessary at unavoidable na pagkamatay ng 44 na kawal ng SAF at iba pang tao. Hindi niya tinatanggap nang maliwanag na sila ni Purisima sa mula’t sapul ang nagbigay ng go-signal sa Oplan Wolverine at nagsubo sa mga biktima sa kanilang kamatayan. Hindi rin niya tinatanggap na siya mismo ang nagbigay ng stand-down order na pumigil sa pagsaklolo ng 315 na SAF sa 77 SAF na napalaban. Pinigil din niya ang Army sa pagsaklolo sa mga naipit sa maisan.
Aroganteng idinidiin ni Aquino na siya ang Ama ng Bayan at responsabilidad niya na tulungan ang mga pamilya ng mga kawal ng SAF na pinatay habang siya ang presidente. Hindi niya tinatanggap na siya ang nagpahamak sa mga kawal niya. Inabswelto pa niya ang sarili at sinabing mananatili pa siyang presidente nang 17 buwan.