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NDFP Human Rights Committee Chairman calls Ermita and Gonzales Liars
By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI
Chairman, NDFP Human Rights Committee
04 April 2009
A lie, even often repeated, is still a lie!
This was the reaction of Fidel V. Agcaoili, Chairman of the Human Rights
Committee of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP)
on the repeated denial by the Executive Secretary Gen. Eduardo Ermita
and National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales that the Government
of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) had nothing to do with the
inclusion of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People's
Army (NPA) and Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chief Political Consultant of the
NDFP Negotiating Panel, in the terrorist listing of the US and European
Union governments.
The statements of Ermita and Gonzales came after the call to delist
Prof. Sison was renewed following the Dutch prosecutors decision to
stop the investigation and prosecution of Prof. Sison on the charges
that he had participated in the killings of the two security consultants
and military assets Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara for insufficient
legal and convincing evidence.
The trouble with Ermita and Gonzales is that they think that the
Filipino people can easily be duped into believing their lies, Agcaoili
said. It must be remembered that the US government included
the CPP, NPA and Prof. Sison in its terrorist list only a few days after
the official visit of then US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the
Philippines in August 2002. Even a child would readily see the relationship
between these two events, Agcaoili added.
Subsequently, the late Foreign Secretary Blas Ople went on a tour of
Europe to lobby the governments of the European Union (EU) to include
the CPP, NPA and Prof. Sison in the EU terrorist list. Ople even admitted
this in his 3 November 2002 column in the Manila Bulletin. These prove
beyond doubt that Ermita and Gonzales are liars, Agcaoili said.
The Macapagal-Arroyo regime had by then decided to ride on the now
widely discredited Bush's war on terror to justify and carry out its campaign
of suppression against the revolutionary movement. These shameless
acts of Macapagal-Arroyo and her lap dogs Executive Secretary Gen. Ermita
and NSA Gonzales showcase their puppetry to the Bush administration,
Agcaoili added.
Agcaoili further called on the Filipino people to remain ever-vigilant against
the lies peddled by the Macapagal-Arroyo regime against Prof. Sison and
the revolutionary movement.
The denial of Ermita and Gonzales sounds as hollow and as false as the
criminal charges they had invented against Prof. Sison. This is the simple
truth, Agcaoili concluded.#
REFERENCE:
Ruth de Leon
Executive Director
NDFP International Information Office
Tel.+31-30-2310431
Fax +31-84-7589930
Email: [email protected]
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