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Walden Bello's Intrigues Serves Imperialist Agenda of State Terror
Against People's Organizations Struggling for Land, Jobs and Self-determination A recent statement by Walden Bello and Focus on the Global South attempts
to generate public concern about their Executive Director's safety. This
worry stems from an article published in the Ang Bayan, the official publication
of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) which Bello claims to
be a "hit-list". In their own statement, Global South lists
seven prominent people's organizations as connected to the CPP. Among
them are KMP, KMU, Migrante, and CPA-organizations representing thousands
of Filipino peasants, workers, and indigenous As the only overseas chapter of BAYAN, the newly founded BAYAN-USA condemns
Bello's self-serving and reckless actions. While deeply concerned with
the safety of a single personality, Bello's Global South further endangers
those already being targeted and murdered under the guise of Bush/GMA's
"war on terror." Just recently, the people mourned the killing
of Oscar Galicia a KMP leader in Camarines Sur, who was killed by Philippine
paramilitary forces and the massacre of As an academic and author of various books and articles on U.S. militarism, Bello is deeply knowledgeable on military counterinsurgency warfare tactics used by military intelligence. Bello and Global South must be well aware of Arroyo's regime's record of human rights violations against activists and ordinary people under the pretense of "war on terror". They must also be fully aware that the CPP has been put on the U.S. "terrorist list" in order to justify the attacks against those genuinely opposed U.S. imperialism. By falsely accusing Jose Maria Sison of authoring a so-called 'hit list" and spreading malicious misinformation about the CPP, Bello helps advance the Bush-GMA regime's campaign to criminalize and tag revolutionaries as 'terrorists.' By declaring that certain organizations work with the CPP, Bello and company are furthering the state's campaign and framework of terror against the people, and serves to justify and condone the brutal military repression already suffered by members of these legal people's organizations. Bello's gratuitous false claims endangers real people involved in real struggles against U.S. imperialism. These actions are deplorable and should be fully criticized. BAYAN-USA condemns Bello's intrigues and opportunism and calls on all people to demand and uphold the truth, and protection of those rightfully fighting for land, jobs, and self-determination. Visit the link below for more information: |
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