Esperon, Gonzalez should be removed from office on the grounds of mental and emotional incapacity
Friday, February 23, 2007
Esperon, Gonzalez should be removed from office on the grounds of mental and emotional incapacity
Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the top brass of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez are foaming at the mouth over the Melo Commission Report and UN Human Rights Commission special rapporteur Philip Alston's initial report, and their responses were all non-sequitur and fallacious in nature.
"Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Gonzalez should be removed from office. They are both mentally and emotionally incapacitated. With their recent conduct and response to the issue of the Melo Report and Alston's findings, they have proven that they are incapable of objective thinking. They simply just might go amok. It would be best for them to go into early retirement," he said.
Beltran said that Esperon's accusations that the New People's Army (NPA) was guilty of purging its ranks was completely unrelated to the Melo Reoport and Alston's findings.
"The victims of the AFP's extrajudicial killings are human rights advocates, members of progressive party-lists and militant people's organizations. What has the NPA got to do with all of this? Civilians are being systematically killed as part of the AFP's Oplan Bantay Laya, but all Esperon can say that the AFP is fighting the NPA and waging a counter-insurgency campaign. It appears that he's trying to justify the brutal murder of over 830 political activists and human rights advocates as the AFP's retaliation against the NPA," he said.
Beltran said that the AFP's release of a 20-year old video of Jose Maria Sison wherein he mentions the people's organizations of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), Gabriela, League of Filipino Students and Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) also strengthens the argument of human rights groups that the real target of the AFP are the militant people's groups.
"It's a 20-year old video. What does that got to do with the extra-judicial killings being perpetrated now with the blessings of the Macapagal-Arroyo government? The AFP is conducting an exercise in futility by trying to use a 20-year old video to justify the AFP's attacks against the progressive party-lists and militant people's organizations," he said.
"There is no defending or justifying the AFP's Bantay Laya and Esperon's pathetic attempts to defend the institution. He is deliberately avoiding the issue that the military is behind more than 830 extrajudicial killings, and is throwing darts at Alston and human rights groups for calling to an end to the brutality," he concluded.#
Esperon, Gonzalez should be removed from office on the grounds of mental and emotional incapacity
Anakpawis Representative and political detainee Crispin Beltran today said that the top brass of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez are foaming at the mouth over the Melo Commission Report and UN Human Rights Commission special rapporteur Philip Alston's initial report, and their responses were all non-sequitur and fallacious in nature.
"Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Gonzalez should be removed from office. They are both mentally and emotionally incapacitated. With their recent conduct and response to the issue of the Melo Report and Alston's findings, they have proven that they are incapable of objective thinking. They simply just might go amok. It would be best for them to go into early retirement," he said.
Beltran said that Esperon's accusations that the New People's Army (NPA) was guilty of purging its ranks was completely unrelated to the Melo Reoport and Alston's findings.
"The victims of the AFP's extrajudicial killings are human rights advocates, members of progressive party-lists and militant people's organizations. What has the NPA got to do with all of this? Civilians are being systematically killed as part of the AFP's Oplan Bantay Laya, but all Esperon can say that the AFP is fighting the NPA and waging a counter-insurgency campaign. It appears that he's trying to justify the brutal murder of over 830 political activists and human rights advocates as the AFP's retaliation against the NPA," he said.
Beltran said that the AFP's release of a 20-year old video of Jose Maria Sison wherein he mentions the people's organizations of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), Gabriela, League of Filipino Students and Alliance of Concerned Teachers (ACT) also strengthens the argument of human rights groups that the real target of the AFP are the militant people's groups.
"It's a 20-year old video. What does that got to do with the extra-judicial killings being perpetrated now with the blessings of the Macapagal-Arroyo government? The AFP is conducting an exercise in futility by trying to use a 20-year old video to justify the AFP's attacks against the progressive party-lists and militant people's organizations," he said.
"There is no defending or justifying the AFP's Bantay Laya and Esperon's pathetic attempts to defend the institution. He is deliberately avoiding the issue that the military is behind more than 830 extrajudicial killings, and is throwing darts at Alston and human rights groups for calling to an end to the brutality," he concluded.#
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