The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Aquino regime for its prevailing war policy of deliberately endangering the lives of civilians and making civilian communities targets of the AFP’s Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression.
Over the past three years under the Aquino regime, the AFP has used the signboard of “peace and development” to undertake military operations that target civilians. The AFP carries out its Oplan Bayanihan operations against rural communities of peasants and minority peoples, especially those which the military suspect are sympathetic, supportive or active in the revolutionary cause.
Under the Oplan Bayanihan, the AFP carries out the following acts which endanger at target civilians:
The CPP holds the Aquino regime and its armed forces culpable for violations of international rules of war in the endangerment and targeting of civilians. Such acts of endangerment and targeting of civilians in the conduct of its war against the people’s revolutionary armed resistance should be thoroughly exposed and opposed.
The CPP calls on international humanitarian agencies, human rights organizations, religious associations and lawyers’ groups to give prime attention to the situation of civilians being endangered and targeted by Aquino regime and its armed forces’ Oplan Bayanihan war of suppression.