Only if you believe that the domestic population are a foreign entity who commit an "internal aggression" when they fight against a foreign armed and supported military dictatorship simply by dint of being "communist" (even when they are not).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suharto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos

Another interpretation is that that is a tired old canard which maintains a life-beyond-death as a necessary illusion which assists the beholder in doing their patriotic duty: maintaining a positive view of the foreign policy of their own nation.

Edit: but yes, my original response was sloppily worded. I didn't mean "declare independence", but rather, "actually achieve independence", my bad.