The Duterte administration’s coercive extension of martial law in Mindanao is a dangerous machination. President Duterte is inexcusably accountable for its atrocious and treacherous imposition. He has proven once more his subservience to his real bosses, the rapacious foreign monopoly capitalists.
Contrary to Mr. Duterte’s declaration that martial law is necessary in fighting terrorism in Mindanao, the Armed Forces and the Philippine National Police are conspicuously intensifying their attacks against civilians. With martial law, state terrorism is becoming even clearer
in the extermination of social activists and bombardment of civilian communities to satisfy Mr. Duterte’s greed for power and facilitate imperialist encroachment.
The imposition of martial law challenges the Mindanao people’s resistance. The revolutionary forces in the far south are resolutely embracing their utmost task to lead and be one with the people in the struggle against all-out war of suppression and Mr. Duterte’s aim to establish a fascist dictatorship.
KA EFREN AKSASATO, spokesperson, National Democratic Front-Far South Mindanao Region