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MEDIA STATEMENT: Biazon did not find ‘US bases’ in Zambo because he was looking for the wrong kind |
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Biazon did not find 'US bases' in Zambo because he was looking for the wrong kind
US bases in the south different from Subic and Clark, says think-tank
"If Senator Rodolfo Biazon was looking for US military bases such as the ones the US had in Subic and Clark, then he really was not going to find them. What the US now has in Zamboanga City are military bases of the new, more sophisticated kind. Unlike in the past, these bases hide within local military bases, they don't fly the American flag, they have more austere facilities but are no less of a "base" in their functions."
This was the reaction of researcher Herbert Docena of the Bangkok-based international think-tank Focus on the Global South to Senator Biazon's claim that there are no US bases in the South after the latter visited facilities in Zamboanga City last October 2.
Docena, who has written a number of reports on the issue has been monitoring and researching the US military presence in the Philippines and in the region for the last six years.
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STATEMENT: US Troops Out of Mindanao; Genuine Self-Determination for Moros Now |
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The United States' involvement in the war in Mindanao can no longer be denied. Several times in the last month, at the height of Philippine military offensives against Moro fighters, US soldiers were repeatedly seen with Filipino troops, helping recover bombs, evacuating casualties, or joining Filipino troops in Philippine military camps throughout Mindanao. The Philippine military itself categorically confirmed that the US military has been providing it with "technical assistance" in pursuit of Moro rebels.
All these continue a pattern of reports that have accumulated in the last few years: Just in February, a Filipino general confirmed that it was the crew of a US spy plane that provided the intelligence which resulted in an operation in which eight civilians, including a pregnant woman and two children, were killed in Maimbung, Sulu.
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PRESS RELEASE: SUSPEND US MILITARY DEPLOYMENTS TO MINDANAO PENDING PROBE -- WATCH GROUP |
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 A broad coalition of NGOs, social movements, and political parties from Mindanao and the rest of the country today called for all US military deployments in Mindanao suspended pending the conclusion of a fair and thorough probe by lawmakers.
The Citizens' Peace Watch, a group formed to monitor what it fears as the growing and permanent US military presence in the South, reiterated its recommendations from a fact-finding mission it conducted in Zamboanga City and Sulu last February. Members of the mission claim to have seen with their own eyes -- and to have pictures of -- the US' military structures inside Camp Navarro in Zamboanga City.
"The information coming out today about the US military presence in the south confirm what we have been saying all along for many months now," says Corazon Fabros, one of the group's spokespersons. "It is high time to look into them because the government's excuse is becoming more and more ludicrous while the situation is getting more and more dangerous."
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Statement of Mindanao NGOs and Coalitions on the Peace Talks |
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This week, the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front stood on the verge of signing an agreement touted to bring an end to the decades-long war in Mindanao in the Southern Philippines. This sparked an uproar and the Philippine Supreme Court subsequently stepped in to prevent the signing. Below is a statement from a number of mainly Mindanao-based as well as national peace coalitions and formations on the issue.
We speak in behalf of the women, children and the displaced civilian communities in Mindanao who stand to benefit from the successful conclusion of the GRP-MILF peace process. We dare to speak because of dire survival. For many decades now, our lives depict the curse of the so-called “collateral damage” in this long internecine armed conflict. We want to finally put an end to the war in Mindanao. We cannot allow this cycle of violence to further victimize our children and the next generation.
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Of neoconservatives and neoliberals: U.S. foreign policy in post-Bush America |
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 Posted by: Alecks P. Pabico on the PCIJ website | July 6, 2008 at 11:21 a
THAT the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush is finally coming to an end may be comforting a thought to many in light of elections in the United States to choose a new president this coming November. But the choices of American voters, having since been narrowed down to John McCain, the Republican Party nominee, and Barack Obama, the Democratic Party nominee, are hardly offering the rest of the world much hope in terms of any fundamental change in U.S. foreign policy.
Visiting academic Dr. Jim Glassman makes such an assessment in a series of lectures last week before political science students at the University of the Philippines and civil-society groups at the Focus for the Global South office. Even Obama's campaign promise of a "Change You Can Believe In" does not evoke much optimism in the associate professor of geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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