By Belarmino Dabalos Saguing, Rome, 16.08.2013
In his speech during the 62nd
anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights in 2010, Aquino vowed
that human rights violators will be held accountable while the government will
protect the rights of all citizens.
"Human
rights has to be universal, has to be for everyone. When one’s rights are
violated, you set the groundwork for violating everybody’s rights—so all
includes our security forces, our peasantry, those below the poverty line,
those who have more in this life," said Aquino.
Nice words, and it made the
people believe and hope. And all the people got was disappointment. The nice
words were not made a reality. If at all, what the regime did was a 180° opposite.
Like his predecessors, B. S.
Aquino embraced neoliberalism. And with this economico-political creed, the
only right isd the right to get rich, to make more money. The rights of the
people are submerged under the rights of the corporations and big landlords to
amass wealth above the people’s rights.
Under Pres. Aquino’s neoliberal economics,
the only freedom is to evict the poor and the indigenous from their homes to
make wy for the corporate minings and businesses.
And human rights violation arised
from every move made by the corporstions.
“In a country with a
semi-feudal political-economic system generating a huge gap between rich and
the masa, the former will fight in every way possible to maintain the structure
of social, political and economic relations-including relations of coercion, violence
and state/corporate terror- which have made the Philippines a paradise for the
wealthy and purgatory for the rest,” a statement from human rights group Karapatan
quoted Boehringer, an Australian Human Rights advocate.
There is no real freedom in
the Philippines. And Humanrights are but an unreachable dream for the people.
The words of Pres. Aquino is
nothing more than mere meaningless movemenst of lips and tongue.
Under Aquino, there is only law and disorder.
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