Aquino hit for ‘favoring investors over victims of large-scale mining’
“Aquino shows no regard for the essential issue in the indigenous
people’s struggle for the very life of their communities, their
children, their way of life, their future,” Luis Jalandoni of the NDFP
said, citing a petition filed by the Tribal Coalition of Mindanao et al
before the Supreme Court on May 30 against the same mining companies,
which were attacked by the NPA.
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – The National Democratic Front of the Philippines lashed out
at President Benigno S. Aquino III for acting “as if he is merely a
caretaker of foreign corporations and local big compradors.”
On October 3, NPA guerrillas stormed three mining companies in Claver, Surigao del Norte, where they burned heavy equipment.
Aquino condemned the attacks and immediately ordered security officials to review operational procedures.
“No one should doubt our commitment to the safety of investors and
our fellow citizens, who deserve to be able to pursue their livelihood
without threats of extortion and violence to disturb them,” presidential
spokesman Edwin Lacierda said.
Lacierda also said the military and the police have implemented
immediate actions to ensure the safety of mining companies in the
country.
In reaction, Luis Jalandoni, NDFP peace panel chairman, said Aquino
“thinks only in the narrow terms of favoring foreign investments, even
if extremely exploitative.” “He is concerned only with providing
military security for them.”
Jalandoni said Aquino completely misses the following points:
1. the extraction of nonrenewable resources such as mineral ores for
export at dirt cheap prices kills Philippine prospects for
industrialization,
2. the indigenous people are subjected to dispossession of land, mass dislocation and ruination of their lives and culture; and.... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
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