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Sunday, January 08, 2006

RP Custody of GI's Pushed

THE PHILIPPINES should take its cue from Japan and stop acting "like colonials" in seeking custody of four US Marines charged with raping a Filipino woman, Senators Aquilino Pimentel Jr. and Richard Gordon said yesterday.

"I guess our DFA (Department of Foreign Affairs) officials can use Japan as an example," Pimentel said in a text message. "We're a second-rate country that's run by third-rate officials who act like colonials," said the Senate minority leader.

Gordon said the Department of Justice and the DFA "should have a stronger backbone in asserting that custody, judicially and diplomatically, is of paramount importance to our people."

"This will lead to a healthier relationship between the United States and the Philippines. Otherwise, Filipinos will always feel that they're victims throughout history because we did not assert enough to have a relationship of first among equals," he said.

Gordon stressed that the US government should turn over custody of the four accused to the Philippine government "out of respect" for its longtime ally.

Unless the Americans respected the Filipinos' desire for the government to assert sovereignty and gain custody of the accused, the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) "would be put to the test," he said.

"The reliability of the Philippines as an ally does not depend on these four servicemen who did a crime off-duty. We're a reliable ally because of the VFA, and we've agreed to train each other because of the VFA," he added.

2 Senators press RP custody of 4 GIs
By TJ Burgonio, Leila B. Salaverria, Nikko Dizon
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 9 January 2006
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=62354

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