Tirad Pass Brigade
October 21, 2007
The officers and men in the service belonging to the Tirad Pass Brigade join the Filipino people in condemning the cowardly bombing at the Glorietta Mall last Friday.
The TPB condoles with the victims and their relatives and friends in the pain and grief that have befallen them.
We are appalled at this horrendous crime. The power of the explosions were calculated to cause such a magnitude of damage and fear in proportion to the wickedness of the perpetrators.
We support Sen. Antonio Trillanes III's charge that this crime could only have been perpetrated by a highly clandestine team of armed mercenaries acting under the direction of Gloria Arroyo's key military and security officials.
There is truth in what Senator Trillanes said. Friday's Makati bombing is Oplan Greenbase all over. Only Gloria Arroyo and her inner circle of generals and henchmen have the motivation, capability and madness to carry out such a criminal deed with no concern at all that many innocent people would die and be hurt.
The objective of the Glorietta bombing was to divert the people's attention from the political scandals arising from the exposés regarding the multi-billion peso kickbacks pocketed by Arroyo and her closest minions and the bribery by Malacañang's of congressmen and other local government officials.
The Glorietta Mall bombing was meant to create a "destabilization" scenario that the Arroyo government has been "plotting" against itself.
The AFP and PNP's claim now that the so-called Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM) carried out the bombing is a ruse to cloud the issue and cover the actual perpetrators' crime. At the same time, it is self-indicative of Malacañang's hand in the bombing. The fact is that the RSM is only a chimera created in 2005 by the AFP's high command to serve as a convenient strawman to blame for the terrorist crimes perpetrated by its own forces.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales' statement that it will take ten more bombs to justify a declaration of martial law is a grim forewarning. We are reminded of the bombing of Joe's Department Store, the Good Earth Plaza and the Manila City Hall by the self-confessed Sgt. Mariano Gabutin and his special operations team three weeks before Marcos declared martial law in 1972.
Earlier, scores of other establishments were bombed by similar special operations teams dispatched by Malacañang, notably Plaza Miranda, the Constitution Convention Hall, the Congress building, the COMELEC building, the NAWASA main pipe in the San Juan-Quezon City boundary and Meralco offices. Anticipate more bombing operations by the AFP's special operations teams in preparation for a similar leap to more authoritarian rule by the present regime.
The Tirad Pass Brigade is determined to resist the terrorist and militarist designs of the present government and put an end to its bogus, corrupt and savage rule. We call on our comrades-in-arms in the AFP and PNP to make a stand and act now against the present dispensation and in defense of the people.
Maj. Rad Pasion
Tirad Pass Brigade
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Tirad Pass Brigade denounces secret and illegal detention of soldiers
Tirad Pass Brigade Statement
The Tirad Pass Brigade (TPB) strongly denounces the Philippine Army’s secret and illegal detention of 40 soldiers, all enlisted men of the Army’s Special Forces and Scout Rangers arrested for allegedly unauthorized movement on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the EDSA I People Power uprising.
We denounce the AFP leadership for placing these soldiers under conditions very much like the dreaded US Guantanamo prison. Moved from one secret detention camp to another, majority of them were brought to the military stockade at Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal on July 24 last year, while a few more were brought there on August 1, and the rest just recently.
These soldiers are already being severely and inhumanly punished even as charges have yet to be filed against them. The Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Office remains at a loss on what actual charges to file against them.
For past 20 months, these soldiers have remained in secret and illegal detention, deprived of the right of access by their families, friends and legal counsel. The TPB demands that these soldiers, who have long been detained without charges, be immediately freed. At the very least, they should be accorded their fundamental rights and allowed to confer with their families and lawyers.
What kind of justice is there in our armed forces and under the present government that indefinitely and secretly detains soldiers and citizens even without charges? What kind of concern, if any, does our armed forces’ top generals, government officials have for its foot soldiers and people?
It is such glaring injustice, cruelty and indifference to the plight of the rank-and-file soldiers and the common folk that are pushing those of us, who can no longer stomach what we see in the service, to rebel and seek to radically change the armed forces and government.
Such dastardly acts of the armed forces and the government only steel our determination to fight for a system of government that truly values, promotes and safeguards patriotism, justice, democracy and the interest and welfare of the foot soldier and the common citizen.
Maj. Rad Pasion
Spokesman
Tirad Pass Brigade
The Tirad Pass Brigade (TPB) strongly denounces the Philippine Army’s secret and illegal detention of 40 soldiers, all enlisted men of the Army’s Special Forces and Scout Rangers arrested for allegedly unauthorized movement on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the EDSA I People Power uprising.
We denounce the AFP leadership for placing these soldiers under conditions very much like the dreaded US Guantanamo prison. Moved from one secret detention camp to another, majority of them were brought to the military stockade at Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal on July 24 last year, while a few more were brought there on August 1, and the rest just recently.
These soldiers are already being severely and inhumanly punished even as charges have yet to be filed against them. The Army’s Judge Advocate General’s Office remains at a loss on what actual charges to file against them.
For past 20 months, these soldiers have remained in secret and illegal detention, deprived of the right of access by their families, friends and legal counsel. The TPB demands that these soldiers, who have long been detained without charges, be immediately freed. At the very least, they should be accorded their fundamental rights and allowed to confer with their families and lawyers.
What kind of justice is there in our armed forces and under the present government that indefinitely and secretly detains soldiers and citizens even without charges? What kind of concern, if any, does our armed forces’ top generals, government officials have for its foot soldiers and people?
It is such glaring injustice, cruelty and indifference to the plight of the rank-and-file soldiers and the common folk that are pushing those of us, who can no longer stomach what we see in the service, to rebel and seek to radically change the armed forces and government.
Such dastardly acts of the armed forces and the government only steel our determination to fight for a system of government that truly values, promotes and safeguards patriotism, justice, democracy and the interest and welfare of the foot soldier and the common citizen.
Maj. Rad Pasion
Spokesman
Tirad Pass Brigade
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