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Press Statement
9 April 2010
APPRECIATION FOR ILPS AND DEFEND COMMITTEE
AND DENUNCIATION OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
I appreciate deeply the campaign of the International League of Peoples'
Struggle (ILPS) and the International Committee DEFEND demanding that the
US, Dutch, EU and other governments stop using false allegations
fabricated and supplied by the reactionary Manila government for the
purpose of persecuting me. In this regard, please visit:
http://www.petitiononline.com/DFNDJMS/petition.html
I denounce vigorously the false allegations. These are in the malignant
spirit of those justifying the abduction, torture and extrajudicial
killing of unarmed social activists in The Philippines. Such false
allegations have been used to undercut my status as a recognized political
refugee since 1992, to put me on the terrorist list of several governments
since 2002 and to cause my arrest and detention in The Netherlands in
2007.
The US-directed Arroyo regime and its military henchmen persist in
fabricating false allegations against me and have so expanded the scope
of slanderous attack as to include the ILPS, of which I am the
chairperson of its International Coordinating Committee. The ILPS is a
democratic and anti-imperialist formation of more then 350
member-organizations in more than 50 countries.
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Defense secretary Norberto Gonzales and General Pedro Cabuay, director
general of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency, have used a
recent national security briefing of the National Security Council for
diplomatic officials to spread false allegations in the form of
speculations, insinuations and intrigues that cadres of the Communist
Party of the Philippines (CPP) are being mobilized under the ILPS in order
to export revolution or communism and deploy them in India, Thailand and
other Southeast Asian countries.
Gonzales and Cabuay prove once again that “military
intelligence” is an oxymoron or a contradiction of terms. The ILPS
is a perfectly legal and transparent global organization. It advocates
mainly the national and social liberation of oppressed peoples. It takes
up 18 concerns or major issues against imperialist domination and
reaction. Information about the ILPS is publicly available from its
website:
http://www.ilps.info
In claiming that the CPP has a superabundance of cadres for deployment in
Southeast Asia and the South Asian subcontinent, Gonzales and Cabuay also
run counter to the chief of the Civil Relations Service Brig. Gen.
Francisco Cruz who has been hyperactive in making the even more ludicrous
psywar claim that the CPP, the New People's Army and the National
Democratic Front have changed their revolutionary character, are so
isolated and about to destroy themselves.
I think that the best way to check the veracity or falsity of the false
claims of the Arroyo regime and its military henchmen is to get the
information from the people and revolutionary forces in the guerrilla
fronts, listen to the rising wave of tactical offensives by the people's
army and to visit the website:
http://www.philippinerevolution.net ###
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