Armed
Forces Should Stop Extrajudicial Killings and Not Deflect the Issue by
Maligning My Christmas Party Pictures with Ara Mina
BY PROF. JOSE
MARIA SISON
Chief Political Consultant, National Democratic Front of the Philippines
Posted by Bulatlat
It was perfectly
alright for me to have kodakan (picture-taking), yugyugan
(dancing) and kantahan (singing) with the Filipina movie and
singing star Ara Mina, Janno Gibbs and migrant workers during a Christmas
party. It was the biggest festivity of the Filipino community in The
Netherlands. I was invited as a special guest.
Members of the negotiating panel of the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) headed by chairperson Luis Jalandoni and the Philippine
embassy officials headed by Ambassador Romeo Arguelles were there to
mingle with the Filipino community. There was nothing extravagant, nothing
comparable to the wild parties thrown by the sybaritic officials of the
Arroyo regime and its armed forces.
My pictures with Ara Mina, Janno Gibbs and many other people during the
Christmas party are posted in
www.josemariasison.org. The website editor posted the happy
pictures to show my closeness to the Filipino community and the variety of
my activities and to counter the attempt of the U.S. imperialists and the
Arroyo regime to demonize and isolate my person.
More than 95 percent of the content of the website consists of serious
articles about the problems of the Filipino people and the entire world in
the face of US imperialism and brutal regimes like that of Arroyo. The
website editor is smart and has a good sense of humor in putting a comic
relief in the website.
The people in the Philippines and abroad should visit the website to make
their own judgment. As a result of the propaganda barrage by the
reactionary Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the website editor has
noted a big jump in the number of people visiting the website. I have to
restrain my website editor from thanking the AFP for unwittingly calling
public attention to the website.
If they are truly concerned about the plight of the Filipino people, the
reactionary AFP should stop the extrajudicial killing, abduction and
torture of so many people and the massive military operations, attacking
the rural and urban communities in the Philippines and displacing hundreds
of thousands of people from their homes and farms.
The Arroyo regime should stop its puppetry to US imperialism, its
corruption, its plundering and its brutality in using the reactionary AFP,
police and death squads against the broad masses of the people, and the
progressive legal activists and critics.
The regime and its armed forces are trying to conceal their crimes by
waging a campaign of vilification and intrigue against me. They are
engaged in a futile attempt to deflect attention from the gross human
rights violations that they have perpetrated and from the findings and
conclusions of the Alston mission and Melo commission.
My attendance in a Christmas party does not change the frugality and
austerity of my life. I am prohibited from working for a wage and yet my
social benefits have been terminated due to the "terrorist" listing
started and pushed by the US government upon the special request of the
Arroyo regime.
As regards the claim of the AFP that the New People's Army (NPA) is
"rotting" in the Philippines while I am supposedly enjoying life in exile,
I think that the people should also visit every day the website
www.philippinerevolution.net to know the happy and creative political,
economic, social and cultural life and the heroic and successful
revolutionary struggles of the people and the revolutionary forces like
the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), NPA, NDFP, the mass
organizations and organs of democratic power. Posted by Bulatlat
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