MANILA – Around 20 protesters suffered injuries in an anti-Trump rally on the same day the US president arrived in the country, according to health group Health Alliance for Democracy.
Police fired water cannons and hit protesters with truncheons and shields, who sustained deep lacerations, abrasions, and blunt trauma. Five were brought to the hospital with three sustaining head injuries.
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"We condemn this latest act of police brutality," said HEAD secretary-general Dr. Joseph Carabeo. "Every Filipino has the right to oppose the peddling of their country to salivating foreign interests."
Protesters composed of farmers, workers, urban poor, and indigenous people marched towards the US embassy in a wave of protests as US President Trump is set to talk with President Duterte during the ASEAN Summit meetings.
Their agenda will include the strengthening of US military intervention through deployment of more US troops in the Philippines, and further liberalization of the economy to lower wages, plunder resources. and privatize social services for Filipinos.
"We ought to ask: at the end of the day, who are Duterte and his police really protecting and serving?"
"This violent reaction of state forces to groups exposing the government’s subservience to US agenda is evidence that it is not the Filipino," Carabeo ended.##
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