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NDFP DESIRES RESUMPTION OF FORMAL TALKS BUT GRP SETS CAPITULATION AS PRECONDITION
by Fidel Agcaoili
Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004 at 10:00 AM
It is important for the broad masses of the Filipino people to know why and how
the GRP has paralyzed the GRP-GRP peace negotiations and to intensify their
struggle for national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and its
rabid puppets in the Philippines. The NDFP holds both the US and GRP
responsible for the escalation of the civil war in the Philippines.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) desires the resumption
of formal talks in the peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of
the Philippines (GRP). But the prospects for such resumption under the Arroyo
regime are dim for the following reasons:
1. The GRP is seeking to impose as precondition the capitulation of the NDFP
under the guise of indefinite ceasefire, in violation of The Hague Joint
Declaration as framework agreement.
2. It collaborates with the US in using the so-called terrorist listing in order
to blackmail the NDFP and extort capitulation. (The said listing violates The
Hague Joint Declaration, the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees
and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law.)
3. The policy of the Arroyo regime on the question of peace negotiations is
completely in the hands of the US government, rabid military puppets and
clerico-fascists who masquerade as social democrats.
4. The Arroyo regime is likely to be removed from power in a short while by the
rising broad popular movement and the people outraged by the puppetry,
corruption, brutality and mendacity of the regime.
In view of the above, the NDFP considers as tricky psywar the so-called
unilateral ceasefire issued by the GRP for the Christmas and New Year holidays
and is calling on the people and the revolutionary forces to be vigilant against
the treacherous acts of the military, police, paramilitary and private armed
gangs of the regime.
The US and GRP military psywar experts and clerico-fascists in the Arroyo regime
are collaborating to perpetuate the so-called terrorist listing by the US and
other foreign governments and to threaten Europe-based panelists and consultants
of the NDFP (especially NDFP chief political consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison)
with CIA-run assassinations and US requests for extradition on the basis of
politically-motivated fabricated intelligence reports from the GRP.
They are trying to kill the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations completely in order to
make way for the escalation of US military intervention and for the increased US
stranglehold on the Philippine neocolony. They are also trying to negate the
European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and International
Humanitarian Law. In their counterrevolutionary way, they are proving the
justness of the Filipino people’s new democratic revolution through armed
revolution and are challenging the people to engage in a fiercer tit for tat
struggle.
It is important for the broad masses of the Filipino people to know why and how
the GRP has paralyzed the GRP-GRP peace negotiations and to intensify their
struggle for national liberation and democracy against US imperialism and its
rabid puppets in the Philippines. The NDFP holds both the US and GRP
responsible for the escalation of the civil war in the Philippines.
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