THE group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) will launch on Monday a campaign to solicit support of foreign diplomats in the country against the Human Security Act.

Leaders of the group said the campaign, dubbed “Letter to the Ambassador,” will inform foreign diplomats in the country on the alleged danger posed by the Human Security Act of 2007 to the 86 million Filipinos who may become victim of human-rights violation that may be committed by security forces tasked to implement the law.

Pamalakaya national chairman Fernando Hicap said he would mail letters addressed to the 16 ambassadors of 15 European countries and the European Union office in Manila, to notify them about the potentially “devastating effects of the new antiterror law to basic human rights and civil liberties” of the people across the country.

Hicap said aside from the letter asking leaders of the European Union to think over a thousand times their support for the antiterrorism law, a strongly worded primer entitled “The Antiterrorism Act: Recipe for Undeclared Martial Law” prepared by the militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) will also be sent.

Bayan claims the most members of militant groups who have been killed or kidnapped.

“The European Union should act in accordance with the collective interest of the Filipino and global people to stop the killing and terror rampage in the Philippines,” he said.

Hicap said the first phase of the letter to the ambassador campaign will cover the European Union office in Makati, and the embassies of Austria, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Hicap said the next phase of the campaign will cover the countries of Asia and the Pacific like Japan, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, India, Taiwan, China, Malaysia and Thailand.

The third phase of the campaign will cover Russia and other former socialist states of the Soviet Union, Latin American countries like Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina and South Africa and other countries in the African continent.

In his letter, Hicap cited the recent move of the US Senate’s appropriation committee approving the foreign operations spending bill that seeks to stop the use of Washington’s military aid against Filipino civilians and extrajudicial killings.

The Pamalakaya letter also asked the European Union and the 15 European states to lobby for a counterpart bill that would ban the use of European military aid to the government.

“The European Community must be informed that The Antiterrorism Act is a shotgun piece of legislation and a recipe for undeclared martial law,” the group said.

THE group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) will launch on Monday a campaign to solicit support of foreign diplomats in the country against the Human Security Act.

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