Louis Jalandoni on Terror-tagging in the Philippines

Welcome to Radyo Pawikan. In today’s episode, we delve into the
topic of terror-tagging and other violations of international
humanitarian law committed by the current Marcos Jr. administration
and his predecessor Rodrigo Duterte. Terror-tagging or the
arbitrary designation of individuals and activists as ‘terrorists’
by state security forces is one of the cases that will be filed
against the US-supported Marcos and Duterte regimes in the upcoming
International Peoples Tribunal this May 17-18 here in Europe. In
the current climate of terror especially with the passage of the
Anti-Terror Law in 2020 and the existence of the NTF-Elcac since
2018, individuals and activists in the Philippines and abroad find
themselves unjustly labeled, and their freedom and safety under
threat. What we have seen happen in the Philippines in the past
years however are not simply threats. Terror-tagging or red-tagging
is often followed by assassination attempts or worse, terror-tagged
individuals are killed. Today we are joined by Ka Louie Jalandoni,
member of the NDFP Peace Negotiating Panel and the NDFP’s chief
international representative. Ka Louie is based in the Netherlands
since the 1970s when he was forced into exile for fighting for
national and social liberation in the Philippines. He has dedicated
most of his life in pursuit of peace as he took part in peace
negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines and the National Democratic Front since the late 1980s.
In mid-2022, under then President Rodrigo Duterte, Ka Louie was
designated as a terrorist by the Anti-Terrorism Council. Since
then, various groups have called on to remove him from the list and
questioned the arbitrary powers provided to the ATC.