Manila - In part of the commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the founding of the League of the Filipino Students (LFS), members of this militant youth group had conducted a lightning rally in front of the United States Embassy in Manila in protest of the “continued US intervention in the Philippines last September 11, 2009.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of LFS, Terry Ridon stated that the continued implementation of the Visiting Forces of Agreement (VFA) and other unequal treaties with the US has taken away the victories of decade’s worth of Filipino struggle against US intervention such as the dismantling of US Bases in 1991.
Members of the militant group take in handed their objections in deal with the RP-US military intervention in front of the United States Embassy in Manila. Terry Ridon, the Secretary General of LFS said that the presence of the United States troops in the Philippines undermines the supposed sovereignty and independence of the country.
This was the statement of the LFS during the Anti-VFA protest rally on September 16th, the anniversary of the 1991 Senate abrogation RP-US Bases Agreement. Such abrogation expelled US troops from the Philippines and dismantled all its military bases, including Subic Bay Naval Base and Clark Airfield.
“After a decade since it was ratified, we ask what the people has gotten out of the VFA. The supposed aid that is being given by the US troops in Mindanao service nothing but a smokescreen to their intervention in the country. It is nothing If it costs our freedom.” Said Ridon.
Added to, the September 11 attack in World Trade Center in NY and the Pentagon in Virginia who were assaulted by the military group Al Qaeda led by Osama Bin Laden which brought “War on Terrorism” invading Afghanistan which is still being carried out by the US government.
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