TRANSPARENT ABUSE

Is Alston on the Look-out for Communist Welfare?

UN Human Rights Specialist Philip Alston, with due respect to his commitment in the country’s politicized deaths should first rationalize his supposed “measures” in establishing “greater transparency” in our government. First and foremost he remains a “stranger” amongst us; he simply cannot “boss” Filipinos around whenever he feels dissatisfied with what our government is capable of doing. Lambasting the current administration for supposed slow-paced countermeasures on extra-judicial abuses, which he himself had commended “efficient”, had gone from “tolerable” to “insufferable”.

Surely, not one Juan dela Cruz across the street would absolve GLORIA for her administration’s shortcomings but neither would he discount the efforts made by the government to resolve such. In fact, this had been the ultimate reason why GLORIA continues to remain afloat despite series of recent upheavals caused by believed exploitative graft cases under her rule.

Filipinos simply know when and where they should act and whom to listen to. Unfortunately, Alston with his hard to live-up standards was far too “ignorant” to notice that.

The obvious decline in the ratios of believed militants’ executions in-between 2006 till 2008 could speak for itself. What is Alston expecting from 220 to zilch? Anyone logical enough to synthesize this progress and Alston’s appositive view would think otherwise. Not even western super powers are able to do it. Take for example the ongoing detention cells in Guantanamo Bay. Other than supposed tortures habitually executed among prisoners in said detention camp, death tolls of inmates had also skyrocketed. Or what about the summary executions launched in Latin America?

The rise of Columbia drug-trade and gun-running that almost crippled the country’s law enforcement had also reflected thousands of untold deaths per day. Else, the ruthless clout of Communism in Myanmar that until now dragged children combatants and massive forced labor across the country. These were far horrible cases of human rights that Alston himself could not swallow. Admittedly, the 64 cases of these assumed unexplained disappearances and illegal detentions filed by various militant groups in the country are of no match if compared with the plummeting human rights defenses in the international arena. Thus, Alston’s bickering here and there of our country’s HR progress had entirely been overrated.

For the sake of argument, let say Alston was not entirely pointless with his “waving the red flag” on assumed lax in the country’s law enforcement. Frankly speaking, civilians residing across far-flung villages in the country echo the same screech. Undeniably, extortions and wide-range threat posed by the Communist Party of the Philippines are gaining grounds. Reasons for such include the military being tied-down by riddling charges of often insubstantial writs of amparo. The CPP-NPA with the help ofcourse of its allied groups run by the National Democratic Front (NDF) had exploited Filipinos’ very democratic space to shield their misdeeds.

Specifically, this had to do with the filed writ of amparo on the 66th Infantry Battalion by members of KARAPATAN regarding the foiled abduction and detention of NPA leaders- Ruel Cabales, Catherine Guino-o Cacdac and Nelson Carbajosa in Compostella Valley. However, in about a month, all three negated said charges and attested having surrendered to said military unit for reasons of dwindling food supply and disgruntling guerilla leadership. Cabales and Cacdac who were being pursued by the CPP-NPA’s SPARU units had admitted being on the run for almost a year.

To note, Cabales and Cacdac were leaders of the GF-25 under the Southern Mindanao Region Command. They were subjected to death after having been involved in cases of fund malverzation which both later denied. The two asserted that it was a way for the Party to persecute them after having been found that they were about to lay down their arms.

As speculated, various leftist-controlled rights group were directed to wage legal actions against the government in COMVAL; insisting that the military is in custody of said cadres. That is, as comrades from its SPARU units pursues all three intending to leave the blames of their deaths on the military. This, indisputably, had been one of the tactics used by the CPP-NPA particularly among its allied members who were suspected of treason.

On other accounts, CPP-NPA-NDF members who were dispensable enough were subjected to summary executions just to establish a case on the pursuing government unit. This for instance involves the sets of “purging” or cleansing operations of the CPP-NPA that was disclosed to the public sometime in 2006. Sardonically, this had been the same ratio counted by Alston on his presumed accounts of political killing nationwide that by now handcuffs our military. Alston is by far unwittingly feeding the CPP-NPA-NDF. Ironically, the HR specialist had been asking the wrong questions on all the wrong places. Even the Davao death squad that Alston was implying to form part of the CPP-NPA’s Oplan Linis Demonyo that was even attested to by the blood-driven Commander Leoncio Pitao alias Parago.

And now, Alston is making it far easier for the CPP-NPA by invoking that “greater transparency” is achieved by having our government divulged vital information on personalities under the AFP’s order of battle and watchlist. By so doing, the government is practically making their moves detectible and worse vulnerable for Communist to sabotage. Is there really a government agency in the world stupid enough to practically hand their know-hows and actions to threatening revolutionist totalitarians? Tell that to the Americans! People outside the military would obvious think the same.