#what atrocities lie in the archive of this account

[staticsqueaks]

A sibling of mine (I won't say which) hacked my LL account to reach UM after receiving a spoofed invitation from him to break his spark. You might want to find out who's sending those; I found one in my buffer too. The language was cruel, but many of our caste would say it's an honest opinion, not a deliberate lie. Perspectives and experiences differ. I am willing to discuss this politely with either or both of you. Have you met anyone who still wears the purple? For science, you should.

Hosin blinks in confusion but mounting intrigue. "Yes, the language was quite cruel, I do not like hearing either side of your society be berated so. I have had dealings with Starscream to attempt to understand his perspective on this war!" He smiled warmly and rooted through his satchel for his notebook, flipping to a new page. "I apologize to you and your siblings if my language may have seemed harsh. I am vehemently anti-war, you see, and I have come on a peace mission and to archive the history of your society!" He nodded enthusiastically, motioning you to sit with him. "And I agree with you! I would love to hear more about your perspectives, your history, the war, the politics, and your ideology should you be willing to tell me. Your place in this society is just as important as anyone else, and I am merely here to cement your time in history!" He chuckled, habitually bringing his pen up to chew. "Ultra Magnus is my friend, so I do wish to defend him, but I do not defend the actions of the Autobots themselves. There have been horrible atrocities committed by both sides, as have there been wonderful advancements I have noticed, and I realize how difficult this must be for your society to mend after so many millions of cycles fighting." He paused, thinking a moment. "What is your name, darling? Please, tell me your story! And your sibling, if they wish to tell me theirs as well, I would be more than happy to converse with you both without judgement!"

#ic #ask #dontpetmeibite #He genuinely just wants to know what you think ^_^

[raslina]

Hey writeblr this could probably be solved with a Google search but what do you,,,,, do with a first draft once it's done

Where do you go, on to writing the second draft???

#writeblr #god i havent been here in forever #what atrocities lie in the archive of this account #......i dont know but i suppose now i have to go find out #for the record tag readers this is about something i wrote and almost finished for nanowrimo last year #so its just... such an unorganized mess #i was looking through it the other day to find something and its *so bad at the start holy shit*

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Survivors of Massacre Ask: ‘Why Did They Have to Kill Those Children?’

By Elisabeth Malkin, NY Times, May 26, 2018

EL MOZOTE, El Salvador--After the soldiers left, the survivors crept out from the ravines and the caves where they had hidden from the slaughter to see a land laid to waste. Some tried to quickly bury the charred bodies of their mothers and their children. Then they fled.

For decades, these witnesses grieved in silence over the massacre in the Salvadoran village of El Mozote and nearby hamlets. But after a recent court decision, they have finally begun to speak out publicly, describing in grim detail the four days in December 1981 when Salvadoran military units, trained and equipped by the United States, killed almost 1,000 people in the largest single massacre in recent Latin American history.

“Miraculously, God spared us so that we could tell what happened,” said Dorila Márquez, 61, sitting on the covered terrace of the rebuilt house she fled with her husband and small children when she was 25. As the young family ran that day, they heard screams and gunfire behind them.

Survivors like Ms. Márquez had faint hope they would ever see justice. But a provincial judge has reopened a long-dormant trial over the massacre at El Mozote, ordering the retired military commanders who once sowed terror across El Salvador to hear charges of war crimes in his 40-seat courtroom.

“Why did they do it, why did they have to kill those children?” said Ms. Márquez, reliving her anger and grief at the moment when she finally saw the generals in the courtroom.

The massacre occurred in the midst of a conflict in El Salvador that became a singular focus of Washington’s battle against communism in the final decade of the Cold War.

As soon as President Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, he increased military aid and sent Special Forces instructors to El Salvador, whose army was fighting the leftist guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, or the F.M.L.N.

In December of that year, the Salvadoran army began a campaign to flush out insurgents from the northern hills of eastern Morazán province. According to accounts by a United Nations truth commission and a later ruling by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the operation began with an aerial and artillery bombardment of El Mozote before the soldiers marched in on Dec. 10 and began interrogating villagers about the guerrillas.

The following morning, they ordered everyone into the town square, separating the men and women, and shoving the children into a small building known as the convent alongside the village church.

Throughout that day, the soldiers methodically executed everyone in the village. They killed the children last, firing a barrage of bullets into the convent and then setting it aflame. An exhumation more than a decade later found the remains of at least 143 victims in that building. The average age was 6.

The same day, the soldiers continued on to La Joya, a hamlet tucked along a valley, where they hauled people out of their homes, shot them and set fire to their houses.

After the government and the F.M.L.N. signed peace accords in 1992, a United Nations-backed truth commission described 32 cases of human rights abuses during the civil war, including El Mozote, and named those whom investigators believed were responsible.

Five days after the United Nations issued its report in 1993, the national assembly in El Salvador granted amnesty for crimes committed during the war. Impunity for the atrocities carried out--as many as 85,000 civilians were killed or disappeared in the conflict--was now enshrined in law, and it appeared military leaders would remain untouchable.

That ended two years ago, when the Salvadoran Supreme Court overturned the amnesty.

Lawyers for the survivors asked a provincial judge to reopen a trial that had begun in 1990, and he agreed.

While the Mozote case is one of the few exceptions where evidence was compiled before the amnesty law, prosecuting a crime that occurred more than 35 years ago will not be easy.

“The amnesty law was pernicious,” said Naomi Roht-Arriaza, a law professor at the Hastings College of the Law at the University of California who follows historical human rights violations in Latin America. “Now we’re at a point where the courts are starting these cases in very difficult conditions regarding evidence.”

For many witnesses, though, the events remain seared on their memories.

In the attack on La Joya, soldiers killed 24 relatives of Rosario López, 70, including her parents, two sisters and 17 nieces and nephews.

When the shooting started, her husband, José de los Angeles Mejía, now 72, took his three children up a hill to hide, then went back for his wife. The two of them escaped just ahead of the troops.

“I heard the commotion, the prayers, from where I was hiding up in the mountain,” he said. “There was shooting at a bunch of kids and some of them cried--and others had stopped.”

Mr. Mejía clambered down the mountain five days later to La Joya’s silent horror. He found the body of one of his wife’s sisters, her dress hiked up, her underwear tossed on a rock. He covered her.

The bodies of children were stacked in a pile, their faces unrecognizable.

Another survivor, José Amparo Martínez, 66, returned to La Joya to look for his mother, days after he had fled with his wife and four young children. He found her body under the collapsed wood of her burned house. “Everybody did what little they could to bury the bones,” he said.

After La Joya, the troops moved on to surrounding villages, killing 978 people in total. Almost half the victims were younger than 12, according to government records provided late last year to El Faro, an online newspaper in San Salvador.

The slaughter was akin to genocide, said the Rev. José María Tojeira, the director of the Human Rights Institute of the José Simeón Cañas Central American University in San Salvador, the capital. “The country has to be aware of that brutality, and in a democracy, that awareness is acknowledged in the judicial system,” he said. “It is the only way.”

As the trial has slowly unspooled in the provincial capital of San Francisco Gotera, the evidence given by survivors has helped to establish what happened. But it has yet to show why the soldiers killed civilians so relentlessly, and who had ordered them to do so.

Eighteen elderly men are facing preliminary charges of murder, aggravated rape and terrorism--accused of being the architects and executors of the scorched earth assault.

“What is so compelling about this trial is that the prosecutors for the victims have finally gone up the chain of command,” said Terry L. Karl, a Stanford University political scientist who follows El Salvador. “The trial hopefully will provide more understanding about what the military strategy was and why these families died.”

At the top of the pyramid of those standing trial is a retired general, José Guillermo García Merino, 84, who served as the defense minister from 1979 to 1983.

Granted asylum by the United States in 1990, he was sent back to El Salvador in 2015. In the immigration court ruling ordering his deportation, Judge Michael C. Horn rejected Mr. García’s argument that the abuses occurred without his knowledge or against his orders. Instead, the judge wrote, the atrocities were part of Mr. García’s “deliberate military policy.”

For decades the Salvadoran military denied anything had occurred in El Mozote. Six weeks after the massacre, The New York Times and The Washington Post published witness accounts, but General García told the United States ambassador the reports were nothing but Marxist propaganda, according to State Department documents published by the journalist Mark Danner in his 1994 book about the massacre.

The trial could run well into 2019, according to the judge, Jorge Guzmán Urquilla, who said in an interview he was committed to a fair trial, and uncovering the truth for survivors.

For the victims, the trial could finally answer essential questions, said María Sol Yañez, a social psychologist at Central American University.

“The survivors say they don’t even know who to forgive,” she said, adding a refrain she hears from the witnesses: “‘What were we doing that they wanted to inflict so much harm on us?’”

The explanation could lie in the military archives, but the army has told the court that records of the operation do not exist.

What may help uncover the military secrets are records kept far from El Salvador.

American support means that “the U.S. archives are chock-full of information about the El Mozote massacre,” said Kate Doyle, an El Salvador expert at the National Security Archive, an organization that seeks to declassify government documents.

The Clinton Administration did release many records, but Ms. Doyle said there are more that El Salvador could ask the United States to declassify.

Looking out over a garden of bamboo and orange trees, Ms. Márquez spoke of the men who had destroyed her village. “They will face God--but they also have to respect the law,” Ms. Márquez said. “What is the law if you don’t apply it?”

#El Salvador #La Joya #El Mozote massacre

[xtruss]

Politics

Boris Johnson says we shouldn't edit our past. But Britain has been lying about it for decades

Consider the concentration camps Britain built in Kenya in the 1950s... almost the entire population – over 1 million – were herded into concentration camps and fortified villages.

One, as the governor of Kenya, *Sir Evelyn Baring*, acknowledged in a secret memo, was roasted alive. Others were anally raped with knives, rifle barrels and broken bottles, mauled by dogs or electrocuted. Many were castrated, with a special implement the British administration designed for the purpose. “By the time I cut his balls off,” one of the killers boasted, “he had no ears, and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket”. Some were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked around the compound until they bled to death.

Baring himself authorised such assaults.

As it happens, *Baring was the grandfather of Mary Wakefield, the wife of Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings*. Baring’s family fortune was made from the ownership of slaves, and the massive compensation paid to the owners when the trade was banned. — Dr. Norman Gary Finkelstein

— George Monbiot | Guardian USA | June 21, 2020

If we really shouldn’t lie about our history, as the prime minister says, let’s finally open up about the atrocities of empire

When Boris Johnson claimed last week that removing statues is “to lie about our history”, you could almost admire his brass neck. This is the man who was sacked from his first job, on the Times, for lying about our history. He fabricated a quote from his own godfather, the historian Colin Lucas, to create a sensational front-page fiction about Edward II’s Rose Palace. A further lie about history – his own history – had him sacked from another job, as shadow arts minister under the Conservative leader Michael Howard.

But, Johnson tells us: “We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history”. Yet lies and erasures are crucial to the myths on which Britain’s official self-image is founded, and crucial to hiding the means by which those who still dominate us acquired their wealth and power.

Consider the concentration camps Britain built in Kenya in the 1950s. “What concentration camps?” you might ask. If so, job done. When the Kikuyu people mobilised to reclaim the land that had been stolen from them by British settlers and the colonial authorities, almost the entire population – over 1 million – were herded into concentration camps and fortified villages. One of these camps, as if echoing Auschwitz, had the slogan “Labour and Freedom” above the gates. Even Eric Griffith-Jones, the attorney general of the colonial administration in Kenya, who was complicit in these crimes, remarked that the treatment of the inmates was “distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany”.

Thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of prisoners died. Many succumbed to hunger and disease, including almost all the children in some camps. Many others were murdered. Some were beaten to death by their British guards. One, as the governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring, acknowledged in a secret memo, was roasted alive. Others were anally raped with knives, rifle barrels and broken bottles, mauled by dogs or electrocuted. Many were castrated, with a special implement the British administration designed for the purpose. “By the time I cut his balls off,” one of the killers boasted, “he had no ears, and his eyeball, the right one, I think, was hanging out of its socket”. Some were rolled up in barbed wire and kicked around the compound until they bled to death. If you know nothing of this history, it’s because it was systematically censored and replaced with lies by the British authorities.

Only in 2012, when a group of Kikuyu survivors sued the British government for their torture and mutilation, was an archive, kept secret by the Foreign Office, discovered. It revealed the extraordinary measures taken by colonial officials to prevent information from leaking, and to fend off questions by Labour MPs with outright lies. For example, after 11 men were beaten to death by camp guards, Baring advised the colonial secretary to report that they had died from drinking dirty water. Baring himself authorised such assaults. In implementing this decision, Griffith-Jones warned him, “If we are going to sin, we must sin quietly”. When questions persisted, Baring told his officials to do “an exercise … on the dossiers”, to create the impression that the victims were hardened criminals.

As it happens, Baring was the grandfather of Mary Wakefield, the wife of Boris Johnson’s chief adviser, Dominic Cummings. Last month, her own truthfulness was called into question as an article she wrote in the Spectator, discussing her experiences of coronavirus, created the strong impression that she and Cummings had remained in London, rather than travelling to Durham, against government instructions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Baring’s family fortune was made from the ownership of slaves, and the massive compensation paid to the owners when the trade was banned.

The hidden Kikuyu documents that came to light in 2012 were part of a larger archive, most of which was systematically destroyed by the British authorities before decolonisation. Special Branch oversaw what it called “a thorough purge” of the Kenyan archives. Fake files were inserted to take the place of those that were expunged. “The very existence” of the deleted files, one memo insisted, “should never be revealed”. Where there were too many files to burn easily, an order proposed that they “be packed in weighted crates and dumped in very deep and current-free water at maximum practicable distance from the coast”. So much for not editing or censoring our past.

The same deletions occurred across the British empire. We can only guess at what the lost documents might have revealed. Were there more details of the massacre of civilians in Malaya? Of Britain’s dirty war in Yemen in the 1960s? Of the catastrophic famine the British government created in Bengal in 1943, by snatching food from the mouths of local people and exporting it? Of its atrocities in Aden and Cyprus? One thing the surviving files do show us is the British government’s secret eviction of the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, to make way for a US airbase. The Foreign Office instructed its officials to deny the very existence of the indigenous islanders, so that they could be removed without compensation or parliamentary objections.

The erasures and deletions continue. In 2010, the disembarkation cards of the Windrush generation of immigrants from the Caribbean were all destroyed by Theresa May’s Home Office. Many people suddenly had no means of proving their right to citizenship of this country, facilitating May’s cruel and outrageous deportations. In 2013, the Conservatives deleted the entire public archive of their speeches and press releases from 2000 to 2010, and blocked access to web searches using the Wayback Machine, impeding people trying to hold them to account for past statements and policies.

Boris Johnson is a classicist – he should know the Romans toppled statues too | Charlotte Higgins

This week, the prime minister asked the head of his policy unit, Munira Mirza, to set up a commission on racial inequalities. She is part of a network of activists whose entire history is, in my view, confused and obfuscated. It arose from the Revolutionary Communist party and Living Marxism magazine. As these names suggest, they purported to belong to the far left, but they look to me like the extreme right. In 2018 I discovered that one of its outlets, Spiked magazine, had been heavily funded by the US billionaire Charles Koch. Other sources of funding remain obscure. In common with some of her comrades, Mirza has cast doubt on institutional racism. Her new role has caused dismay among anti-racist campaigners, who fear yet more editing of history.

Lying about history, censoring and editing is what the political establishment does. The histories promoted by successive governments, especially those involving the UK’s relationship with other nations, are one long chain of lies. Because we are lied to, we cannot move on. Maturity, either in a person or in a nation, could be defined as being honest about ourselves. We urgently need to grow up.

— George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

[theelasilonews]

THE NIGHMARE THING

By Destiny Flynn (via The Vortex)

((CW: Murder/death, serial killers, inhumane medical experimentation))

I was really pretty dubious when Parker messaged me asking me to do this piece for the Vortex. Frankly, I've spent so long working in an audio/visual medium that I'm not sure I can still accurately convey genuine thoughts or feelings without the piles of seemingly irrelevant visual assets slapped on top, but hey. We all have to push our comfort zones sometimes, right?

I guess before I get into it I should warn Parker's regular audience that I'm going to get into some pretty heavy shit in this one about real people who've been murdered or disappeared. My tone, if you're not familiar with my work, is a little bit flip, and I don't want to make anyone think that I'm making light of these situations. Humor is how I cope with bullshit, but if you'd rather not subject yourself to that, maybe give this one a miss.

That said: The Nightmare Thing.

So, for those of you who are neither regular viewers of my channel, nor longtime followers of the Vortex, there's a fairly well-supported theory in the underground El Asilo community that Vantage Corp. has something to do with El Asilo, CA's astronomical rate of missing persons cases. Parker has written on this on his twitter feed and this blog before, and I have a few videos on the topic on my channel as well. However, as you might have noticed, this theory is difficult to substantiate. Well, Destiny; why's that?

For one, people who disappear in El Asilo tend not to be very high profile, and oftentimes few people really notice them missing Families and friends make a stink about it, of course, but what can a few people really do against the full force of Vantage's insidious legion of public relations personnel? Not a whole fucking lot, turns out.

The second reason for this is that El Asilo also has the largest number of serial killers per capita of any city in the United States. Serial killers aren't exactly the most predictable group of criminals in the world, but most of the ones here don't exactly have a vested interest in leaving...how shall we say? Identifiable bodies. This makes them REMARKABLY good scapegoats. There's nothing we can do to PROVE that any given missing person didn't just fall victim to Joe the Slasher 'round the block, even if when taken as a whole, the numbers don't come close to lining up.

This is not to say that the only victims of the fucking...void monster that I suppose we're supposed to believe is eating all of El Asilo's missing people are obscure nobodies. I point you to Atlas, Junesong, and Eraser, the heroes implicated in the Vantage Day parade bombing, whose case never went to trial. Or to Slightgeist, Miss Miracle, Deaddrop, or Nebulara, all heroes who disappeared without a trace within the last ten years. But with the public approval rating for heroes and vigilantes declining at a steady rate over that same time period driving heroic fan-followings directly into the Earth's core, not many people have paid attention to a few heroes dropping off the map.

Enter Nightmare.

Nightmare, civilian name Christina Karim, was a supervillain and serial killer active in El Asilo between December 2015 and February 2016, when she was famously turned in to the police by fellow criminal Penny Dreadful on Valentine's day. For those of you living under a rock (or outside the city, where I understand news does not often reach) at that time, Nightmare was a rather unartistic career criminal who worked with her partner and sometime girlfriend Cupid, occasionally killing people for shits and giggles. The pair famously killed an El Asilo University pre-law student, shoved her body into a swimming pool locker, and waited for student and police to recover the body.

The circumstances of Nightmare's arrest are largely inconsequential to the funtimes journey I'm taking y'all on, but seem to be mainly tied to Nightmare and Cupid carving out territory which began to infringe one that of Dreadful's gang. The actually important part here is that Nightmare and Cupid were phenomenally well-known and almost universally reviled, in part due to their large social media presence. Both villains blogged regularly about their exploits on social media, and Nightmare's blog is still publicly accessible through the archive on ap3nnyforyourthoughts, Penny Dreadful's public blog. Nightmare's powers (the ability to sense and manipulate fear) were also fairly striking, which brought her quite a bit of villain cred. Because of these and the attention-grabbing nature of their crimes, Nightmare and Cupid received plenty of media attention, and were still well in the midst of their fifteen minutes of fame when Nightmare was abruptly kidnapped and turned over to the EAPD.

"Well, Destiny," I imagine you're thinking at this point, "If Nightmare was so damn infamous at that point in time, her trial should have been a pretty big deal, right? How come I've never heard anything about it?"

And that's a REALLY REALLY GOOD QUESTION, hypothetical strawman reader upon whomst I am projecting the next point of this lengthy and indecipherable diatribe.

The answer is that by all means, this should have been a huge deal. At a time before Smilin' Milo or Chiron reached much public recognition, where the only other serial killer with that level of public caché was Goodknight, this should have been the trial of the god damn CENTURY. Instead?

Nothing.

No hearings. No trial. No plea bargains, no lawyers, no records, no nothing. Just like Atlas, Junesong, and Eraser before her, Nightmare seemed to essentially evaporate into thin air. But why? How does a well-known serial killer just disappear out of jail without a bat of an eye? Well, there are a few theories.

The first, and in my opinion least plausible, theory is that Nightmare is just dead. The theory goes that Vantage took her out in prison before any momentum could build surrounding her trial, for some unknown reason. But I really don't find this one very compelling. First off, there's absolutely no evidence to suggest its' veracity. I know that's a common thread when it comes to your friendly neighborhood megacorp's misdeeds, but this one is especially shaky. What reason would Vantage have for this not to go to trial? Putting Nightmare on display and basking in the glory for putting an end to her terror ought to have been a FANTASTIC photo op. And, as far as Vantage is concerned, losing someone with her powers would have been an enormous waste of resources. Why? Stay tuned, listeners.

The second theory holds that Nightmare, like many criminals before her, was recruited out of her jail cell for Vantage's worst-kept secret; their covert assassination division. It's not as though this hasn't happened before (check my video on the subject for more info,) but Nightmare's circumstances cast some doubt on this theory as well. Readers. I've, like, READ Nightmare's blog. Evidence makes it clear that she was something of an egomaniac. She moved in on Greenback territory because other people having power threatened her. She displayed her crimes publicly because she needed the acknowledgement, often to the detriment of her crime career. It may be just me, but I don't think that's the kind of personality that particularly lends itself to a line of work where one's every move would be controlled by someone else.

And then there's the fact that, since her arrest, Nightmare has clearly not been in touch with her girlfriend, who has been publicly grieving for over a year. One would think that, were Nightmare able to act freely, she would have at least contacted the only person who seemed to matter to her. (NOTE: I attempted to reach Cupid for comment on this article. I was, uh. Not successful. So the possibility remains that something happened behind the scenes.)

Which brings us to the third and most compelling theory. This theory holds that Nightmare IS in Vantage's custody, but not their employ. Remember how, before, I mentioned that she had some incredibly interesting powers? I'm sure Vantage does. I know this theory is probably going to be the most wildly out there for folks who aren't chin-deep in esoteric real-world conspiracy theorist refuse the way I am, but hang on for me here.

There's another theory, a theory that's been around almost as long as Vantage's hold on the city itself. A theory that beyond all the shady Vantage-sponsored legislation, beyond their trapping an ENTIRE CITY in a snowglobe, beyond their sinister anti-hero agenda or even their poorly disguised assassination department, there lie even deeper and more vile atrocities. This theory is that Vantage is running sinister human experimentation somewhere on their premises, largely on supers. Parker has covered some of the evidence for this concept in his post on the El Asilo Monorail Project, and I have a broader video upcoming, but the evidence is there when you know where to look. From employee social media accounts sneaking secrets out into limited follower groups to anecdotes from those claiming to be escapees, there's a lot to sift through, and I'm promising here to go though it later in a way that y'all can actually digest.

But for now...it does sort of explain the circumstances, doesn't it? Frankly, it's the only explanation for the disappearance anyone has posited so far that lines both Nightmare's motivations and Vantage's up with the facts.

As it is, right now the Nightmare Defense is one of the most common arguments for the idea that Vantage is, at least in part, behind a portion of the missing people in El Asilo. After all, if not that, then where the FUCK is Christina Karim?

Anyway, that's all they wrote. If you found this useful or entertaining, you'll probably like Parker's stuff, so please follow The Vortex. And if you want to support what I do, try following me and giving me money so I don't starve and can afford to keep making videos of my inane ranting layered over visuals designed to entrap your attention and distract from the fact that I'm going on for fifteen full minutes about something you don't and will not ever believe because Vantage's agenda is so deeply ingrained in the collective subconscious that it actively discourages resistance and most of you don't even know it's happening.

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Parlade renews call for CHR to take action vs. Reds’ atrocities

#PHnews: Parlade renews call for CHR to take action vs. Reds’ atrocities

MANILA – A ranking military official called on the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) anew to take action against atrocities of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

"Weeks after the NPA killed several surrenderers in Sorsogon and other places, CHR has not taken any action but instead proposed the abolition of the NTF ELCAC (National Tas Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) for allegedly using the NTF as a tool to harass people. Is CHR really blind of what’s happening around?” said Lt. General Antonio G. Parlade, Jr., Southern Luzon Command chief.

Aside from being mum on the issue of communist atrocities, Parlade said CHR has not lifted a finger to denounce the lies being propagated by human rights group Karapatan Caraga in its Facebook account.

“Karapatan has accused the AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines), particularly the 3rd Special Forces Battalion (3SFBn), 36th IB and 75th Infantry Battalion of firing at a civilian community and throwing a grenade at the house of a certain Naldo Calipay in Diatogon, Lianga town, Surigao Del Sur,” he said.

The incident left a 5-year-old son of Calipay wound and two other women age 19 and 55.

“How can CHR allow this to pass public scrutiny especially since the victims themselves executed statements that it was the NPA’s M203 grenade launcher that maimed them,” he said, adding that it was military personnel from the 9th Special Forces who gave first aid to the victims and brought them to Lianga District Hospital for medical treatment.

Parlade said Karapatan Caraga’s statement is indeed proof that it, together with CHR, are protectors of the NPA by concealing the violent tracks of the CPP-NPA and National Democratic Front (NDF) yet accuses the government of red-tagging.

"The killings and the lies continue. Last February 10, two NPA hitmen shot to death Adonis Alagadno Shu, resident of Sitio Iraan, Barangay Magara, Roxas, Palawan. The motive of the killing was Shu’s decision to lie-low as a CTG (communist terrorist group) sympathizer," he said.

What was more appalling was that on the day of Shu's killing, the NPA's Bienvenido Vallever Command in Palawan released a statement through social media and claimed that the military killed the victim for refusing to cooperate with them.

Consistent lies

"To illustrate how consistent they are in their lies, these CPP-front organizations recently organized a forum with FilComs (Filipino Communities) in Australia last February 22. It was jointly sponsored by BAYAN Australia, Gabriela Australia, KMU. The objective was clearly to make sure that they will be able to counter the forum which the NTF ELCAC conducted last January," Parlade said.

While a few Gabriela and Migrante members were present in the NTF ELCAC forum,  he said, these individuals paid no attention to the government’s presentation especially those concerning the contentious provisions of the NDF's version of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social Economic Reforms (CASER).

"They had the chance to respond to the issues discussed but instead patronized themselves by declaring how many people Migrante and Gabriela have been helping," he said.

And looking back at the video clip of the forum, Parlade said these CPP-front organization members were very consistent in their lies even as they appear soft-spoken to the audience as if they were saints.

"KMU’s Elmer Labog did not answer the specific deleterious issues raised by the NTF ELCAC, like the 'confiscation of all capitalist, multinational, compradors in the country' should CASER be signed and the national Peace talks with NDF Utrecht pushes through. They have no valid argument to this, except to say that capitalism has made our people poorer," he added.

"Labog discussed on CARHRIHL (Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law)  but cannot contest the zero human rights records of the AFP for the last six years. Yet he continues with the lies by announcing that 27,000 'workers' were killed during the drug war of PRRD(President Rodrigo R. Duterte) Does DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment) know about these workers killed? Maybe Secretary (Silvestre) Bello can make a comment on this, even as this figure cannot be explained where it was plucked," he added.

He also scored Bayan Australia chair Berlin Guerrero for perpetuating the lie about a revolutionary government and using this as part of their efforts to ask the Australian Parliament to stop support to AFP and Philippine National Police.

"Anakbayan and Migrante Australia also supported  ILPS (International League of Peoples' Struggles) chair Len Cooper’s call to support national peace talks, citing sweeping generalizations and concluding that it will usher in economic relief. Relief? Really? How will it give the Philippine economy a relief if CASER will lead to capital flight and the closedown of economic activity in the industrial zones? (Article VII, Section 1.a. Confiscation and expropriation of assets of foreign monopoly, capitalists, big compradors)," Parlade said.

This, he said, will result in loss of jobs and would send dissatisfied workers to the mountains to join the armed ranks of the NPA.

"None of these were tackled by the speakers, obviously, and Len Cooper won't explain what will happen to the country if the AFP will be demobilized (Article X, CASER NDF) with the signing of CASER, while the NPA will be retained (Article IX, CASER NDF) to implement the 'proletarian dictatorship' (CPP Constitution and Programs, May 2017)," he said.

He also expressed alarm over Cooper's message that claimed there are now 400 organizations worldwide which are part of the ILPS network.

While this was discussed, Parlade said the ILPS chair did not mention about the "fraud" they are committing by asking donations from FilComs, Church, the Australian government, and other governments, for purposes other than those stated in their advocacy.

"These include recruiting child warriors (by Anakbayan), bailing out NPA terrorists (by Karapatan), publishing manuals that radicalize children (by IBON), supporting fact-finding and lying missions (by NUPL), fabricating research and reports to destroy the crediblity of duly elected governments (by IBON), and other activities to support the underground movement," he added.

He sadi CPP founding chair Jose Maria 'Joma' Sison was simply too smart to let Australian Len Cooper assume all these fraudulent and terroristic acts, by relinquishing chairmanship of ILPS to the latter.

The CPP-NPA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines. (PNA)

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References:

* Philippine News Agency. "Parlade renews call for CHR to take action vs. Reds’ atrocities." Philippine News Agency. https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1095072 (accessed February 28, 2020 at 08:36AM UTC+14).

* Philippine News Agency. "Parlade renews call for CHR to take action vs. Reds’ atrocities." Archive Today. https://archive.ph/?run=1&url=https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1095072 (archived).

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