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Wednesday, April 29, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
By GARY LARSON
"Well, if I'm lucky, I should be able to get off this thing in about six more weeks."
Speaker says U.S. aid blocks progress
U. S. military aid to the Philippines blocks democratic progress and ignores the economic roots of the nation's civil war, a former relief agency worker said last night.
By PAUL SCHRAG
Friesen spoke to about 30 people last night at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave.
"There's a conflict between a concern for human rights and pursuing a military counter-insurgency in a nation where over 80 percent of the people are below the poverty line," said Dorothy Friesen, who worked with the US Air Force from 1979 to 1983 and returned for seven weeks in February and March.
"The people in the Philippines are capable of deciding what they want," she said. "But with a foreign element contributing to the fighting, there is a formidable challenge to lasting peace.
The Philippines needs land reform that would give economic power to the peasants, not the continued violence caused by seeking a military solution, Friesen said.
"Without a substantial land reform program, I don't see how violence can be averted."
The United States is providing $80 million in military aid to the Philippine army this year. Friesen said he approved $10 million for CIA cexert aid.
The money supports Philippine President Corazon Aquino's fight against the New People's Army. The NPA is the military arm of the Democratic Front, a revolutionary group that demands land reform
"If there was land reform, there would be no basis for an insurgency," Friesen said, quoting Jose Maria
Sison, who is thought to be the founder of the communist party in the Philippines.
Modesto Gonzalez, Lawrence resident and native of the Philippines, said after the speech that he agreed that communism was not the main threat in the Philippines. The United States should focus on helping to solve the Philippines' economic problems, he said.
Friesen said a Philippine colonel told her that Aquino realized that the roots of the NPA's insurgency were economic but pursued a military solution anyway.
Some Philippine military officers disagree with the way the fighting is being conducted, she said. Philippine army activity is similar to that of death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the U.S. Phoenix program in Vietnam in the 1960s, in which Vietnamese community leaders were killed, she said.
Some officers oppose such activity because the strategy didn't work for the United States in Vietnam, Friesen said.
Friesen has returned to the Philippines about once a year since she worked there for Mennonite Central Committee, a church relief agency, in the 1970s. During her trip this year, she led a travel seminar for a group of U.S. lawyers.
In Davao, her group saw the results of the Philippine civil war. About 10,000 people were living in camps outside the city after fleeing from bombing and ground fighting.
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