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Militants begin fast vs. killings of leftist activists

Militants begin fast vs. killings of leftist activists
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Leaders of militant groups on Wednesday kicked off their three-day fast outside the main gate of the House of Representatives in Batasan this morning to press House Speaker Jose de Venecia to call for a full-blown investigation on the spate of political killings and abductions of leftist activists since January this year.

Willy Marbella, spokesperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Fernando Hicap, national chair of Pamalakaya and Carmen Buena, chairperson of the peasant women group Amihan joined Anakpawis party lists representatives Rafael Mariano and Crispin Beltran in the three-day fasting calling an end to the fresh wave of political killings and involuntary disappearances of political activists which started as early as 2001 in Mindoro provinces.

“ We want to deliver a strong political statement here. For the sake of truth and justice, we strongly ask the de Venecia leadership in the House of Representatives to issue a powerful statement condemning the left and right assassinations of leftist activists and urging the perpetrators of state-directed attacks to stop this roaring rampage of violence against militant leaders and personalities”, the KMP and Pamalakaya said in a joint statement.

KMP’s Marbella said Speaker de Venecia cannot take the issue of political killings of aboveground leftist leaders and mass activists for granted. He said the Speaker, as the third highest official in the land is politically and morally bound to speak out and demand justice for the victims of state sponsored terrorism.

“ The Speaker of the House should speak for the cause of justice and civil liberties. Taking this issue for granted will cost him more than expected”, warned Marbella. “ We hope the Speaker of the House will finally speak and show statesmanship for those people who gave their lives for the common cause of ordinary people”, the militant leader added.

For his part, Hicap of Pamalakaya asked congressmen from Central and Northern Luzon, Bicol, Southern Tagalog and Eastern Visayas to support the initiatives of militant party list groups Anakpawis, Bayan Muna and Gabriela Women’s Party inside the House of Representatives urging the de Venecia leadership to address the issue of political killings of leftwing activists since most of the recent killings took place within their respective regions, provinces and districts.

“ We ask the parties concern to condemn this quick bullet in the brain campaign being staged by the government and its military machinery since January this year. The murder of leftist activists is being written, directed and staged by top authorities of Macapagal-Arroyo ruling syndicate in Malacañang “, the Pamalakaya chair stressed.

KMP and Pamalakaya said the three-day fasting was an opening salvo for the series of mass actions to be launched by militant groups this month. Both groups vowed to carry out ceaseless campaign against the political killings of their leaders and mass members within the next two months.

Earlier Pamalakaya thanked the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) a day after CBCP President Archbishop Fernando Capalla called on government authorities to resolve the killings of leaders and supporters of the ongoing strike in Hacienda Luisita.

Archbishop Paciano Aniceto of the Ecclesiastical Province of San Fernando, Pampanga likened the killings connected to the Hacienda Luisita dispute to the tense situation in the late 1940s in Central Luzon when the region turned into a boiling cauldron of violence as thousands of peasants armed themselves in the face of the unchecked human rights violations perpetrated by local landlords and the military. #

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