League of Filipino Students (LFS), a militant youth group fighting for the freedom of the country, commemorate their 32nd founding anniversary by having a protest convention in front of the United States Embassy located in Manila against the continued US intervention here in the Philippines .
“The presence of US troops in the Philippines undermines the supposed sovereignty and independence of the country…” explained by Terry Ridon, the Secretary-General of LFS.
Then he also added 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.
This VFA is an agreement between the US and the Philippines in allowing the US military troops to operate in the Philippines . And LFS firmly stated that this supposed aid that is being given by the US troops in Mindanao service is nothing but a smokescreen to their intervention in the country.
“…it is nothing if it costs our freedom” Terry Ridon vigorously concluded.
Coincidentally, this lightning rally of LFS was happened in the controversial day of September 11 (09/11) where a series of coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States also happened. Are these coincided events which are always against the United States of America could mean something…AGAIN?
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