**Stop US military intervention in the Philippines!**

PRESS RELEASE

NDFP International Information Office

5 March 2012

**Stop US military intervention in the Philippines!**

“Direct US military intervention in the Philippines is escalating.
We call on international friends to condemn this and demand the
immediate withdrawal of US troops!” thus declared Luis G. Jalandoni,
Chief International Representative of the National Democratic Front of
the Philippines (NDFP).

Jalandoni issued the statement yesterday, citing reports on the US
Operation Pacific Angel 12-1 which starts today in the Bicol region,
south of Manila in Luzon. An undisclosed number of American soldiers
belonging to the 13th US Air Force are reported to be flown to Albay
province and carry out military and civil-military operations with the
Armed Forces of the Philippines from 5-10 March 2012.

The US 13th Air Force is equipped with advanced aerial surveillance
capabilities. It is able to launch unmanned surveillance vehicles.
This US Air Force unit had been tasked last year to deploy an unmanned
spy plane in North Korea to provide the US with a detailed view of
North Korea's military.

“The escalating US military intervention in areas of the liberation
struggles of the Filipino people and the Moro people is fraught with
great danger. It can ignite an armed conflict between the resistance
fighters and the interventionist US troops,” Jalandoni warned.

He issued a strong call to international friends to oppose this
violation of the national sovereignty of the Filipino people. “This
unjust intervention must be stopped!” he declared. Jalandoni cited
the militant international support of the Kent State students in the
US in May 1970 and other international acts of solidarity which helped
stop the US war of aggression against Vietnam in the 1970s. “The
anguished cry of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the bullet-ridden body
of Jeffrey Miller is a stark reminder of US aggression,” said
Jalandoni.