[news] Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia

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US-Backed Repression Soars Under President Gloria Macapagal  
Philippines: the Killing Fields of Asia

By JAMES PETRAS and ROBIN EASTMAN-ABAYA; March 17, 2006 - Counterpunch 

Since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo joined the US global "War on Terrorism", the Philippines has become the site of an on-going undeclared war against peasant and union activists, progressive political dissidents and lawmakers, human rights lawyers and activists, women leaders and a wide range of print and broadcast journalists. Because of the links between the Army, the regime and the death squads, political assassinations take place in an atmosphere of absolute impunity. The vast majority of the attacks occur in the countryside and provincial towns. The reign of terror in the Philippines is of similar scope and depth as in Colombia. Unlike Colombia, the rampaging state terrorism has not drawn sufficient attention, let alone outcry, from international public opinion.

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