EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS AND THE CRISIS OF THE ARROYO REGIME
NEOCOLONIAL STATE TERRORISM AND THE CRISIS OF COMPRADOR/IMPERIALIST HEGEMONY By E. SAN JUAN, Jr. Philippines Cultural Studies Center Prodded by Amnesty International (AI), the Inter-Parliamentary Union, Asian Human Rights Commission, Reporters Without Borders, and other international organizations, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently cobbled a group to look into the allegations of massive human rights violations—over 729 victims of extrajudicial killings, and 180 involuntary “disappearances,” by the latest count—during her administration. The spokesman of the National Democratic Front Philippines (NDFP), Fidel Agcaoili (2006), quickly dismissed the move as a scheme to hide the regime’s complicity in Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL), the internal security program designed to wipe out the 37-years old insurgency in two years. Can the culprit indict and condemn herself? How can Arroyo acquit herself when this unprecedented “genocidal” campaign to suppress all dissent (as Agcaoili and othe...