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dinsdag 4 juli 2017

Mensenrechtenschendingen aangejaagd na inzet VS militairen in de Filipijnen..........

Sinds kort is het leger van de VS samen met het Filipijnse leger op jacht naar strijders van IS (verenigd in 'Maute) en Abu Sayyaf. De president van de Filipijnen, Duterte, zegt tegen de inzet te zijn van VS troepen in zijn land, dit is in overeenkomst met zijn verkiezingsbeloften. Nu kan je nooit weten wat deze psychopathische moordenaar echt wil, behalve dan alle drugsverslaafden en dealers vermoorden (waar de schadelijkste harddrug is uitgezonderd van vervolging: alcohol.....).......

Duterte heeft al wel aangegeven, dat hij minder grip heeft op het leger, dan zich liever voegt naar de wil van de VS. De band tussen de VS en het Filipijnse leger is historisch en dateert nog uit de tijd, dat de Filipijnen een kolonie was van de VS van 1899 tot 1946......

De vrees is dan ook, dat de VS de strijd tegen islamitische terreurgroepen gebruikt, om weer echt vaste voet op Filipijnse bodem te krijgen, waar de kans bestaat, dat de VS een coup zal organiseren tegen Duterte....... (al kan deze psychopaat beter vandaag dan morgen worden afgezet, echter niet middels de hulp van de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde: de VS, dat zich al als een beest heeft gedragen op de Filipijnen!)

Uiteraard richt de VS zich ook op de linkse verzetsgroepen en dringt het aan op een verbod van de communistische partij in de Filipijnen.......

Eén ding is zeker: de mensenrechtenschendingen zijn na de inzet van VS troepen flink gegroeid, mensenrechten waar het Filipijnse leger en politie al schijt aan hadden......... De interventies en andere bemoeienissen van de VS in de Filipijnen uit het verleden, waarbij massamoorden werden gepleegd, mensen werden gemarteld en andere ernstige mensenrechtenschendingen werden gepleegd, doen het ergste vrezen voor de Filipijnse bevolking op o.a. Mindanao.......

Naast dit alles moet niet vergeten worden, dat de Filipijnen als kolonie van de VS wordt gebruikt voor de afzet van overproductie. De Filipijnen fungeren als een semi-kolonie van de VS, niet alleen voor afzet, maar ook vanwege de lage arbeidskosten en voor de bescherming van de miljarden investeringen die de VS heeft gedaan in de land- en tuinbouw, plus de productie van wapens en munitie..... Zelfs overheids/publieke zaken als gezondheidszorg, onderwijs, energielevering en telecommunicatie zitten bomvol VS investeringen, dit meestal daar deze zaken in handen zijn, dan wel voor een groot deel in handen zijn van VS bedrijven of VS investeerders.......

Vergeet verder niet dat alleen Mindanao naar schatting al van 840 miljard tot 1 biljoen dollar (in Engels: 840 billion en 1 trillion dollar) aan mineralen in de bodem heeft, dat is zo'n 70% van de totale Filipijnse mineralenrijkdom........

Lees het volgende uitstekende artikel van Joe Catron over deze zaak:

US Military’s Anti-Terror Efforts in the Philippines Fueling Human Rights Violations


July 2, 2017 at 8:02 am
Written by MintPress News Desk
U.S. forces have teamed up with the Philippines’ military to combat terrorist groups in the country, ostensibly to bring about peace. But numerous human rights violations have sprung up in their wake and some believe that the U.S.’ ultimate goal may be to oust President Rodrigo Duterte.

(MPN) — As United States special forces near their third week in Marawi, a city on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, observers say their participation in the Armed Forces of the Philippines’ battle to reclaim the city from the ISIS (Daesh)-linked Maute group was also aimed at reinforcing more than a century of U.S. control over the Philippines, which was its colony from 1899 until 1946.

The U.S. seeks to consolidate and maintain the Philippines as its semi-colony, wherein it can avail itself of cheap raw materials (minerals, oil, natural gas), a cheap labor force, a dumping ground for its surplus US products, as well as protect its billions in investments in corporate agribusiness, military production and even healthcare, education, and public utilities such as telecommunications and energy,” said Bernadette Ellorin, a grassroots human rights activist and chairperson of BAYAN-USA, an alliance of U.S.-based progressive Filipino organizations.

A 2006 U.S. intelligence assessment said Mindanao could hold mineral resources worth between $840 billion and $1 trillion, or as much as 70 percent of the Philippines’ total mineral wealth.

The island is also the site of enduring conflicts between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the indigenous Lumad and Moro peoples, as well as the leftist New People’s Army.

Peace talks between the GRP and the Moro National Liberation Front, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the leftist National Democratic Front of the Philippines have stretched on for decades. But they quickly disappeared from headlines when Maute seized Marawi on May 23, after an attempt by the GRP to arrest the leader of another Daesh affiliate, the Abu Sayyaf group.

But many fear that the goal of the U.S.’ current intervention is to strengthen the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in their bid to repress these popular movements, as well as Maute and Abu Sayyaf.

The U.S. objective in Marawi and in Mindanao is to go after and crush the revolutionary armed movement in the region including the Bangsamoro struggle for self-determination, rebrand the [Communist Party of the Philippines]-NPA as terrorists to the international community, and derail the peace process that was resumed under the Duterte administration,” Ellorin said.

Philippine military “…the most reactionary and pro-U.S. government institution…”

The GRP, led by President Rodrigo Duterte, did not invite the U.S. presence in Marawi. In fact, Duterte had ejected U.S. special forces from the same region nine months earlier. Their return apparently came at the invitation of the AFP.

Speaking at a press conference in the city of Cagayan de Oro on June 12 – one day after U.S. participation in the battle began – Duterte said he had “never approached America” for assistance and “not aware of that until they arrived,” adding “our soldiers are pro-American, that I cannot deny.”

The AFP’s founding by the U.S., as well as the decades of training and other assistance it has received from America, make it uniquely pro-American in a country where Duterte’s anti-U.S. broadsides have won broad public approval.

The AFP is the most reactionary and pro-U.S. government institution in the Philippines,” Ellorin said.
It was established in the early 20th century during the U.S. colonial period by the U.S. colonial government as the Philippine Constabulary, whose purpose was and remains to maintain U.S. control over the country and suppress anti-colonial rebellion.”

Many are worried about the fresh support that the AFP is receiving from the U.S., as well as its apparent ability to create its own foreign policy independent of the GRP.

U.S. intervention has emboldened a Philippine military that is notorious for its human rights record,” said human rights attorney Azadeh Shahshahani, a member of the global council of the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines.

Human rights violations abound amid U.S. intervention

Before the Marawi crisis erupted, years of U.S. involvement had already taken a grisly toll in Mindanao and across the Philippines, according to the country’s human rights advocates.

U.S. intervention through military and political means on the affairs of Mindanao and the Philippines has resulted in countless violations of human and people’s rights such as massacres, torture and other grave crimes especially against the Moro peoples, to blatant disregard of the country’s sovereignty and patrimony, and to the worsening of social injustices and discrimination against Moro and Lumad peoples,” said Cristina Palabay, secretary general of the KARAPATAN Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights.

In Marawi, she added, “Human rights violations have been committed with graver impunity especially with the continuing implementation of the U.S.-driven counterinsurgency program, all-out war declaration against the people, the anti-poor war on drugs and martial law declaration in Mindanao.”

These abuses fit an established historic pattern of the U.S. and its allies using anti-terror rhetoric to justify their repression of popular struggles, regardless of the human toll, according to Reverend Michael Yoshii, a global council member of the International Council on Human Rights in the Philippines

In the case of the Philippines, this has led to hundreds of extrajudicial killings targeting human rights advocates seeking social change in the country,” he said.

The war on terror continues to be a nebulous reality that needs to be reigned in as innocent civilians like those in Marawi have become collateral damage in these campaigns.”

U.S. neocolonialism unlikely to end anytime soon in the Philippines

Shahshahani added that U.S. involvement in the Philippines occurs across multiple levels, with various strategies but identical goals.

U.S. intervention takes place in the economic, political, social, and cultural spheres in the Philippines and perpetuates the country’s deep-seated social and economic crisis that is the root of chronic social unrest in the country,” she said.

The Filipino people have suffered the brunt of this military presence, including sexual violence against women and children, forced evacuation of communities in areas designated for military exercises and operations, injuries and killings of civilians, and destruction of the environment.”

With U.S. forces showing no signs of leaving Marawi anytime soon, their presence raises several questions about the future. One is the effect that an enhanced U.S. role could have on peace talks between the GRP and leftist or Moro groups.

Another is the consequence of a possible power grab by the military of a democratic country in cooperation with a foreign superpower.

This current situation demonstrates how divided the ruling classes are within the current administration of Rodrigo Duterte,” Ellorin said, adding that it “indicates intentions of the U.S. and its loyalists in the AFP to destabilize the Duterte administration if it does not uphold the traditional status quo of U.S. neocolonial politics in the Philippines.”

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By Joe Catron / Republished with permission / Mint Press News / Report a typo