The Philippines importation of state terrorism
The US has taken a sharp turn to the right since 9/11 and there
has been in all practical terms the victim of a right-wing coup. Say goodby to
the freedoms we took for granted in the pre-9/11 era. The concept of torture,
indeterminate detention without charges or trial, kidnapping world-wide,
assassinations, drone attacks, support for dictators and apartheid states, are
normalizing and will soon spread into the normal government activities in the US,
and it is also being exported to or being copied by its satellite states as in
the Philippines. Soon average citizens in many countries could find themselves
in Guantanamo-like prisons throughout the world, all justified under the guise
of security, in the name of war on terror. Filipinos has began to enter this
condition since years ago.
The continued widespread
gross Humamn Rights Violations in the Philippines exemplifies the American
influence: forced disappearances, tortures of illegally arrested activists in
military ‘safehouses’, muder of known critics of the regime, are happening with
impunity around the country. The numbers of disaparecidos and political
prisoners are increasing and the government, despite the new laws against
illegal arrests, is turning blind eyes on what is happening.
Democracy is being killed in
the Philippines and from many other countries. It is now very evident. If
terrorism really exist, it is the very state whose duty is to protect the
people from it, is doing the terrorism to its own people. Is there an end for
it?
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