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Unity Statement of the
Resistance Against State Terrorism (Resist!)
We are
freedom and peace-loving Filipinos from various sectors of society, aware of
the implications of the ongoing US' war of aggression against many
countries, alarmed over President Arroyo's all-out support to it at the
expense of the people's basic human, civil and political rights. We commit
ourselves to the Resistance Against State Terrorism (Resist!).
GMA's
support of US war is anti-democratic and anti-people. It lays the conditions
for further repression and sets the stage for outright fascist rule in the
guise of anti-terrorism. The Arroyo government is wielding power through
state terrorism and has totally shown her loyalty and servitude to the US
war of aggression.
GMA's
perceived terrorists include members of progressive peoples' movements
critical of its pro-US policies and programs. Under the panic drive against
its unseen enemies, they become the government's easy targets as 'enemies of
the state."
We condemn
the resurgence of militarism and rising state-terrorism courtesy of the
Arroyo government. Already, rampant human rights abuses, officially denied,
have been committed against helpless civilians particularly in the urban
poor communities and peasant areas. The dreaded secret police and
community-based intelligence and spy network had been revived and has sown
disunity, individualism and terror among the urban and rural poor.
The Arroyo
government has unleashed the state's military and police forces against the
people. GMA's pledge of a "strong republic" has become a curse to human
rights.
Experience
has taught us to be on guard. We believe that the US war against terrorism
is in truth and in fact a war against many nations and peoples for the US'
geopolitical gains. Such war that has made our country its second front
after Afghanistan, does not involve us and would not redound to our
collective interests as a people and nation.
We oppose
the US war of aggression! We oppose the Arroyo government's subservient
effort to suppress and repress the people's democratic rights in the name of
such war! We oppose state terrorism!
We call on
the people to oppose the resurgence of fascism! We call on all peace and
freedom-loving Filipinos to assert their democratic rights in the face of
rising state terrorism. UPHOLD THE PEOPLES DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS!
RESIST STATE TERRORISM! Resistance Against State Terrorism (Resist!) December 7, 2002
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