RANDOM thoughts on the most abused phrased, a favorite of trendy social climbers a.k.a. the left.
“Human rights”, a Western cultural construct, is meant not only to impose their narrative but also to control developing and Third World countries particularly in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
“Human rights” is mainly a Western invention, an abstract idealization created by people in comfortable societies who might have little or no exposure to what people in societies they see as backward really think, feel and do.
Meanwhile, the International Human Rights Day as created by the United Nations was celebrated on Dec. 10. This makes it rather appropriate that we talk about the atrocities, “human rights”, humans violated and killed by the CPP/NPA/NDF which is the shrillest in using “human rights” as a justification whenever they get arrested by government forces.
The irony of this “human rights” thingy is that the ones who always scream “human rights” are also the ones violating it most.
So in line with the celebration of International Human Rights Day, here’s a list of atrocities and human rights violation committed by the CPP/NPA/NDF:
* Inopacan Massacre, Leyte – 1985; hundreds of NPA fighters were mercilessly killed in mass graves in suspicion of being government assets
* Rano Massacre, Davao Del Sur – June 25, 1989; NPA massacred over 40 members of the UCCP Church in Digos because their Pastor Ruben Ayap refused to support them
* Murder of Corporal Frederick Villasis – August 2022; while conducting community support mission in Tapaz, Capiz
* Guihulngan Massacre – July 21, 2017; seven policemen were massacred along the Negros Highway in Guihulngan City
* murder of FEU footballer Keith Absalon and cousin Nolven Absalon – June 6, 2021; while biking they were wounded by improvised landmine, shot in the head while begging for mercy; this happened in Anas, Masbate City
And we segue to minors recruited by the CPP/NPA/NDF that were killed in encounters with government forces:
* Josephine Anne Lapira – UP Manila Biochemistry student; Nov. 28, 2017 in Nasugbu, Batangas
* Litboy Talja Binongcasan – 16 years old Grade 6 student; Nov. 30, 2019 in Butuan City
* John Carlo Alberto – UPLB Veterinary Medicine student; Feb. 14, 2019 in Luisiana, Laguna
* Cindy Terado – HRM Student, Assumption College of Davao; April 15, 2019 in Tagum, Davao del Norte
* Malvin Christian Cruz – BS Statistics UPV Miag-ao; June 29, 2020 in Miag-ao, Iloilo
* Jerome Sanogal – a 19-year-old promising athlete from Maasin that represented Iloilo as an amateur boxer; November 2022
Meanwhile, stalled at a House committee level (thankfully) is the Human Rights Defenders Protection Act or House Bill 10576 ostensibly to protect and define the rights and freedoms of human rights defenders in the Philippines.
The principal authors of HB10576 are Albay 1st District representative Edsel Lagman whose ties with the CPP/NPA/NDFP need no introduction, and Quezon City 6th District representative Kit Belmonte who’s either a “useful idiot” or just trying to be cute, of course ably supported by the front organizations of the CPP/NPA/NDF taking advantage of the party-list system in Congress, aptly called KABAG – an acronym for Kabataan, Anakpawis, Bayan Muna, Alliance of Concerned Teachers, and Gabriela.
The ulterior motive for this HB10576 is quite obvious. Republic Act 11479 or The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020 plus the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) are the “one-two” punch of the government in eliminating the threats of terrorism and ending the decades-long insurgency problem.
Obviously, the Anti-Terrorism Law and the NTF-ELCAC are very effective, otherwise these folks won’t come up with this Human Rights Defenders Protection Act because if it becomes law it will also effectively render the Anti-Terrorism Law inutile. So tell me who wants to have an inutile Anti-Terrorism Law except the terrorists and their supporters?
Isn’t that clever? Using government resources to undermine the government. So really, “human rights”?/PN
