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Press Statement
17 September 2009
ARROYO AND RAZON PROCLAIM
END OF GRP-NDFP PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
In their most recent statements, the de facto president Gloria M. Arroyo
and her OPAPP secretary Avelino Razon Jr. have paid lip service to peace
negotiations between the Government of the Philippines (GRP) and the
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) only to proclaim the
end of peace negotiations and blame the NDFP for their own malicious
action.
Despite the extremely hostile pronouncements of Arroyo and Razon, the NDFP
Negotiating Panel continues to seek the resumption of formal talks in the
GRP-NDFP peace negotiations and demand respect for and compliance with the
Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and all other
bilateral agreements made since 1992.
At the same time, the NDFP is acutely aware of the fact that GRP is
hell-bent on seeking the destruction and pacification of the revolutionary
movement of the people mainly through the military force of Oplan Bantay
Laya and secondarily through psywar pretenses at wishing peace
negotiations. The GRP has shown its malevolent scheme in the following
ways:
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1. It does not want to give up
its policy and practice of using false charges of common crimes to
demonize, harass, abduct, detain, torture and murder suspected
revolutionaries, social activists and the NDFP panelists, consultants,
staffers and other JASIG-protected people. It is thus incapable of
respecting and complying with the JASIG and the Comprehensive Agreement on
Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL).
2. It wants to prevent the negotiation of social, economic and political
reforms in accordance with the substantive agenda set forth by The Hague
Joint Declaration and the Joint Agreement on the Sequence, Formation and
Operationalization of the Reciprocal Working Committees. It does not wish
the peace negotiations to be a way of addressing the roots of the armed
conflict and laying the basis for a just and lasting peace through basic
reforms.
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3. It wants to front load the end of hostitilies, which is the fourth and
last item in the agenda, so that it can actually destroy the peace
negotiations as a way of bringing about basic reforms for the benefit of
the people. It is obsessed with imposing the framework of disarmament,
demobilization and reintegration simply to pacify the people and
perpetuate the rotten ruling system of oppression and exploitation.
By all indications, the Arroyo regime does not want the resumption of
formal talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations, unless it realizes
immediately its malevolent scheme and attain its malicious objectives
against the Filipino people and their struggle for national liberation and
democracy. ###
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