[APWSLMembers 339] CALL FOR GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

[Kilusang Mayo Uno]

Dear comrades and friends,

On Sept 21, 1972, Marcos imposed martial law in 
the Philippines that saw the arrest, detention, 
harassment, persecution and killings of many 
political activists and ordinary masses in the country.

More than three decades after and despite the 
so-called lifting of martial law in 1981, the 
same situation still exists.  Under the regime of 
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (2001 up to the present), 
over 730 were killed victimizing workers, 
peasants, women, youth, students, teachers, 
lawyers, members and leaders of party list 
groups, church people, human rights workers and 
media people.  Over 180 were forcibly abducted 
and thousands continue to suffer persecution as 
progressive and legal mass organizations are 
tagged as “enemies of the state” under the US-Arroyo’s war on terror.

On Sept 21, 2006, the Filipino nation will 
commemorate this historic day thru a nationwide 
protest action to demand an end to political killings and repression.

At the same time, the International League of 
Peoples Struggle (ILPS) of which KMU is a member 
is calling for a Global Day of Action Against 
Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines.

Please join us in commemorating this day by 
launching protest actions or dialogues on 
Philippine Consulates and Embassies in your 
respective places.  You can also send protest 
letters to the Government of the Republic of the 
Philippines demanding a stop to political 
killings and repression and to respect basic tenets of democracy.

We would greatly appreciate if you can inform us 
of the actions you would be taking on Sept. 21 in accordance to this call.

Thank you for your solidarity and support to the 
Filipino people’s struggle for genuine freedom and democracy.

In solidarity,
KMU International Department




CALL FOR GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION
AGAINST EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES
ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2006

By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chairperson, International Coordinating Committee
International League of Peoples’ Struggle
August 22, 2006

On September 21, 2006, the Filipino people will 
remember the imposition of martial law and a 
fascist dictatorship on them by Marcos upon the 
instigation of the US in 1972.  They will 
commemorate their suffering and sacrifices and 
honor the revolutionary martyrs and heroes. They 
will celebrate the victory ultimately won in the 
struggle against the US-directed fascist regime.

At the same time, they will renew their resolve 
to continue the struggle for national liberation 
and democracy against the persistent and worsened 
dominance of foreign monopoly capitalism, 
domestic feudalism and bureaucrat 
capitalism.  These evil forces have once more 
given rise to a new repressive regime, that of 
Gloria M. Arroyo, since 2001.  State terrorism in 
the Philippines is today the bitter fruit of such 
US imperialist policies as the “neoliberal 
globalization” and “global war on terror”.

The Filipino people are confronting and resisting 
the Arroyo regime, and its violent instruments, 
such as the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the 
Philippine National Police and their death squads 
– the perpetrators of massacres, assassinations 
and other grave violations of the human rights of 
the people in both the urban and rural 
communities. Under the US-instigated Oplan Bantay 
Laya, patterned after Phoenix Program in the 
Vietnam in the 1960s, not only the forces of the 
armed revolutionary movement are being attacked 
in a barbaric manner but also the unarmed leaders 
and activists of progressive legal forces.

The Arroyo terrorist regime has already murdered 
730 and abducted more than 180 legal activists, 
including party list local leaders, workers, 
peasants, women, youth, students, teachers, 
lawyers, church people, human rights workers and 
media people.  The murders and abductions have 
been perpetrated with impunity at an accelerating 
rate since 2001.  The annual rate at which these 
crimes have been committed during the 5-year rule 
of Arroyo has surpassed that in the 14-year fascist dictatorship of Marcos.

  Amnesty International, Asian Human Rights Watch 
and other international human rights 
organizations, religious institutions and 
organizations, trade unions, political parties, 
lawyers groups, media organizations and many 
people abroad have condemned the rampant human 
rights violations in the Philippines and have 
manifested solidarity and support for the 
Filipino people in the struggle for justice 
against the Arroyo regime and its instruments of 
repression and state terrorism.

The victims, their families, friends and 
colleagues and the broad masses of the Filipino 
people are crying out for justice and 
retribution. The Arroyo regime, the military, 
police and death squads must be made to stand 
trial for their crimes against the Filipino 
people, and against humanity. Otherwise, these 
vicious violations of the democratic and human 
rights of the people will continue.

We are calling on all justice-loving people and 
forces of the world to join the international 
mobilization against the Arroyo regime and its US 
imperialist master.  We demand an immediate stop 
to the extrajudicial killings and open the way to 
all possible measures for the attainment of 
justice.  With the solidarity and support of the 
people of the world, the Filipino people can 
bring closer the day of reckoning for the entire Arroyo regime.

Join us in declaring September 21 as the global 
day of action against the extrajudicial killings 
in the Philippines.  Let us hold indignation 
rallies and protest actions in front of the 
embassies and consulates of the Philippines in 
your country. Let us light a candle for the more 
than 730 martyrs killed by the Arroyo regime. Let 
us call on our host governments to end their 
support of the Arroyo regime and hold it 
responsible for its crimes against humanity.

NEVER AGAIN TO FASCIST DICTATORSHIP!
STOP THE TERRORIST KILLINGS BY THE ARROYO REGIME!
FIGHT STATE REPRESSION AND STATE TERRORISM!
JUSTICE TO THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!
UPHOLD DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE PHILIPPINES!




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