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Bounty for Sison and Rosal, preposterous and the height
of cover-up and impunity
NDFP HRC Chairman
7 May 2009
NDFP Human Rights Committee Chairman Fidel Agcaoili hit today the
announced P15M bounty for Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chief political
consultant of the NDFP, and Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal, spokesperson
of the CPP, by the Department of Interior and Local Government as
"preposterous and the height of cover-up and impunity for the armed
minions of the Arroyo regime."
"This is but another ridiculous public stunt of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
regime to lay the crimes of extrajudicial killings of activists on the feet of
the NPA and the revolutionary movement. In the face of the findings to
the contrary of UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions Philip Alston and countless other highly credible international
groups such as Human Rights Watch of the culpability of the GMA regime
and its agents in the wanton murder of unarmed social activists, this move
again highlights this regime's twisted scheme to wriggle its way out of its
crimes," he remarked.
Agcaoili added that even governments and parliaments such as the European
Parliament have recognized the findings of the Alston Report as well as the
GMA regime's own Melo Commission on extrajudicial killings as expressed in
a resolution it passed on March 2009.
"It is only the GMA government that believes in its own innocence on the
killings of activists. Its persistence in blaming the revolutionary movement
is deeply insulting to the victims and their families seeking for justice and
the international community that has put tremendous pressure on the
regime to solve extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and other
gross human rights violations," he stated.
Agcaoili believes that the new bounty is another way of the GMA government
to fabricate cases especially against Professor Sison.
"The dropping by Dutch prosecutors of the case against Professor Sison on
March 31 is a sore defeat for this criminal regime as its plot to get Professor
Sison expelled from the Netherlands crumbled to dust. It is very likely that
the AFP, PNP and the criminal minds of the likes of Eduardo Ermita and
Norberto Gonzales are again building up fake cases and laying down the
ground for false testimonies to continue its obsessive prosecution of Professor
Sison," he relayed.
Agcaoili also expressed that the bounty scheme will only likely be used by
the GMA regime to prop up its killing machines and thereby intensify
extrajudicial killings and other attacks on civilians, activists and its perceived
opponents especially now that the 2010 elections are coming.
"This regime is so fearful of getting booted out of power for it knows that
the people's movement will never let them off the hook for its criminal
actions. The P25-M allotted by the GMA government and the P23.5-M
allocation of the DILG are the pot money that very possibly will only be
used to step up killings of activists and militarization of communities
nationwide," he further added.
Finally, Agcaoili called on the people not to get deceived by the recent
move of the GMA government.
"GMA, her cohorts and henchmen, and butchers such as Palparan are the
ones liable for the spate of killings against progressives. No bounty is even
needed for their arrest," he concluded.
REFERENCE:
Marissa P. Dumanjug-Palo
Head of Secretariat
NDFP-Nominated Section
Joint Secretariat
Tel.: +632-7252072
Tel/Fax.: +632-7251457
Email: [email protected]
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