CPP brands AFP’s ‘Bayanihan’ as patterned after US program 12/24/2010

CPP brands AFP’s ‘Bayanihan’ as patterned after US program

12/24/2010
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has branded the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s internal peace and security plan (IPSP) “Bayanihan” as “the same dog with a different collar,” stressing the new plan is patterned after the United States militarist counterinsurgency guide.

In a statement, the CPP said that “Aquino’s Oplan Bayanihan is not at all new except in name and heavy cosmetizing,” comparing it to the previous Operation Plan Bantay Laya under the Arroyo administration which was blamed for various human rights violations.

“The ‘new’ plan hews to the fancy rhetoric of the latest edition of the US Counterinsurgency Guide. It contains the same, brutal, militarist doctrine and prescriptions of all previous US-designed co-in (counter-insurgency) plans. It pretends only to be different from Arroyo’s Oplan Bantay Laya by harping on new rhetoric that are neither grounded in practice nor in will,” said the CPP.

Last Tuesday, AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Ricardo David Jr. formally presented IPSP Bayanihan to the Commander in Chief President Aquino during the AFP’s 75th founding anniversary. Aquino gave his full support to the new counterinsurgency program..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20101224nat2.html