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Prof. Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
14 November 2011
 

Obstacles to the peace talks and remedies:
Brief presentation to press conference, in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Let me state to you the remedies that have been used or can be used to overcome or solve 10 major obstacles or problems in the GPH-NDFP peace negotiations.

Let me refer quickly to every obstacle or problem and then state the remedy.

1. Problem of diametrically opposite positions in a civil war

* Remedy: The Hague Joint Declaration (THJD) makes it possible for the warring parties, GPH and NDFP, to become negotiating parties. It declares that they are guided by mutually acceptable principles of national sovereignty, democracy and social justice and that there shall be no precondition whatsoever to negate the inherent character and purpose of peace negotiations. Both sides keep their respective political integrity in addressing the roots of the armed conflict by negotiating and agreeing on basic social, economic and political reforms.

2. Problem of safety and immunity guarantees

* Remedy: The Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) provides the guarantees for both sides. Safety and immunity guarantees are necessary for the negotiators, consultants, staff and other personnel in the peace negotiations. Safety of such persons, documents and other things is necessary before, during and after the peace negotiations. Immunity ensures that they do not become criminally liable for what they utter or do in connection with the peace negotiations.

3. Problem of venue in view of previous bad experience in the 1986 ceasefire talks

* Remedy: The JASIG has stipulated foreign neutral venue, with facilitation of foreign governments. During the ceasefire talks and ceasefire agreement in 1986 and early 1987, the NDFP personnel and allies were put under surveillance by enemy intelligence. Afterwards, a number of them were arrested, tortured and killed. Peace negotiations in a foreign venue do not require mobilization of large security forces by the negotiating parties. They are secure and economical for both sides.

4. Problem of orderly meetings and consultations

* Remedy: Ground Rules regarding these have been agreed upon. To mention some of the rules, the chairpersons are responsible for the conduct of their respective panels and consultants and they co-preside the formal meetings. The chairpersons of the panels, teams or representatives thereof can engage in informal meetings and consultations to facilitate the formal meetings. The third party facilitator is in charge of hosting and providing necessities for the talks and can attend the formal meetings.

5. Problem of having substantive agenda towards a just and lasting peace

* Remedy: THJD requires addressing the roots of the armed conflict by negotiating and forging agreements on basic social, economic and political reforms and sets forth the substantive agenda: Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (already done); Social and Economic Reforms; Political and Constitutional Reforms; and End of Hostilities and Disposition of Forces. There is the Joint Agreement on the Formation, Sequence and Operationalization of the Reciprocal Working Committees for making the tentative agreements before finalization by the negotiating panels. After a comprehensive agreement is approved by the panels, it is submitted to their respective principals for approval.

6. Problem of legal and judicial framework

* Remedy: The CARHRIHL has used as main frame of reference the international conventions on human rights and international humanitarian law and the negotiating panels adhere to their respective constitutions. The prospective CASER avails of international conventions and the negotiating panels adhere to their respective constitutions. The prospective CAPCR will be guided by international law and will seek to make a new constitution on the basis of the constitutions of the GPH and NDFP and create new political mechanisms. The prospective EHDF will also be guided by international law and by a new constitution agreed upon by the GPH and NDFP.

7. Problem of violations of JASIG and CARHRIHL

* Remedy: The NDFP has constantly demanded that justice be rendered to the JASIG-protected negotiating personnel who have been subjected to imprisonment, torture and extrajudicial killings. The refusal of GPH to heed the demand for justice and the immediate release of the JASIG protected prisoners can be a just ground for the NDFP to withdraw from the peace negotiations but still the NDFP continues to demand and wait for the GPH to comply with JASIG. Like the entire people and the human rights, peace and religious organizations, the NDFP is demanding the release of more than 350 political prisoners who have been tortured and imprisoned on trumped up charges of common crimes in violation of CARHRIHL, particularly the Hernandez political offense doctrine. The Aquino regime condones the human rights violations perpetrated under the Arroyo regime and is perpetrating its own. The NDFP has the just ground to withdraw from the peace negotiations because the Aquino regime does not comply with the JASIG and CARHRIHL.

8. Problem of demagogic demands for ceasefire to draw attention away from the roots of the armed conflict

* Remedy: NDFP has offered truce and alliance on the basis of a general declaration of common intent in the spirit of encouraging and accelerating the peace negotiations. Such offer is intended by the NDFP to counter the frequent demagogic demand of the GPH which obfuscates the need for addressing the roots of the armed conflict and tries to push the NDFP towards a position of surrender and pacification. But if the GPH seriously takes the offer, then there can be an immediate truce and alliance in general terms that will certainly encourage and accelerate the forging of the three remaining comprehensive agreements on SER, PCR and EHDF.

9. Problem of GPH undermining and seeking to nullify the THJD, the JASIG and even the CARHRIHL

* Remedy: NDFP simply has to uphold the existing joint agreements in opposition to the efforts of the GPH to undermine and nullify them. The peace negotiations will not move forward or will even be terminated if the GPH does not remove the clique of clerico-fascists, military hawks and crooks that are in control of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process. Such clique is most responsible for the efforts to cast away the THJD on the false argument that it is a document of perpetual division, that the JASIG does not involve obligations but is only a matter of discretion for the GPH and that the CARHRIHL is not binding and effective, despite the approval of the principals. The current OPAPP has become notorious for attacking existing agreements with the NDFP or with the MILF. It is preoccupying itself with racketeering activities in connivance with certain paramilitary groups like the CPLA and the RPA-ABB which are misrepresented as rebel groups.

10. Problem of the Oplan Bayanihan, including US intervention and interference in the peace negotiations.

* Remedy: NDFP exposes the US-designed Oplan Bayanihan as a military campaign plan masquerading as a peace and development campaign. We call on all peace-loving people to demand that the GPH, particularly the Aquino regime, engage in serious peace negotiations and build a just and lasting peace with the NDFP on the agreements already made. According to Oplan Bayanihan, the peace negotiations are merely a fig leaf on the naked brute force of the state. The GPH is supposed to use sham peace negotiations if only to reinforce the psywar misrepresentation of the military campaign of suppression as peace and development operations. The NDFP advises the GPH to engage in serious peace negotiations because the revolutionary forces are ready to frustrate the GPH strategy of deception and violence.

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Status and obstacles to the resumption of peace negotiations
Monday, 14 November 2011 22:15 Hits: 50
 

Instead of complying with agreements, the (Aquino government) engages in vicious, deceptive propaganda attacks against the NDFP, and refuses to seriously tackle issues on social, economic and political reforms
By LUIS G. JALANDONI
Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel
 

Since 1969, for 42 years, there has been an armed conflict in the Philippines, between the armed forces of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the revolutionary forces represented by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
 

After the dictator Ferdinand Marcos was overthrown in 1986, ceasefire talks were held in 1986 in Manila, resulting in a 60-day ceasefire agreement. Panels of the GRP and NDFP began talks to set an agenda for substantive peace negotiations. After the massacre of peasants marching for land reform in January 1987, these talks collapsed.
 

In 1992, preliminary talks were resumed to lay the ground for peace negotiations and gave birth to The Hague Joint Declaration. The formal peace negotiations began in Brussels in 1995. Since 1992, twelve bilateral agreements have been forged between the GRP and the NDFP.
 

The NDFP engages in peace negotiations in order to address the roots of the armed conflict. Land reform to benefit the peasantry, who comprise 75% of the population of 94 million; national industrialization to develop the backward agrarian economy and harness the rich natural resources; these and other basic reforms are aimed for by the NDFP in the peace talks.
 

The Hague Joint Declaration of 1992 stipulates the substantive agenda of human rights and international humanitarian law, socio-economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms and end of hostilities and disposition of forces. It is the framework agreement, declaring that principles of national sovereignty, democracy and social justice shall guide the two Parties. Neither Party may impose its constitution. Capitulation may not be demanded.
 

In 1995, the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) was signed. This is vitally important because it guarantees safety and immunity to all participants in the peace process from both Parties. The guarantees include safe and unhindered passage in all areas in the Philippines and immunity from surveillance, arrest, detention and other punitive actions.
 

In 1998, the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) was completed. This is the first of the four substantive agenda. This requires both Parties to observe the highest standards of HR and IHL, such as those contained in the Geneva Conventions. A Joint Monitoring Committee is mandated by the CARHRIHL to monitor the implementation of CARHRIHL.
All three agreements, as with other agreements, were approved by the respective Principals of both Parties.
 

In 2001 the Royal Norwegian Government came in as Third Party Facilitator.
 

Last February 2011, formal peace talks resumed in Norway after almost seven years of impasse under the Arroyo regime. Both Parties agreed that all or most of the 17 NDFP Consultants detained by the GRP/GPH in violation of the JASIG must be released.
 

GPH refusal to release them has been a major obstacle to resumption of peace talks because without compliance with JASIG, the panelists and consultants cannot function. Respect for JASIG is needed to build confidence.
 

The next talks aim to take up socio-economic, political and constitutional reforms.
 

An offer of the NDFP for alliance and truce, presented last January, has so far no adequate and concrete response from GPH President Aquino. The offer is based on a 10-point program expressing the fundamental aspirations of the Filipino people for land reform, national industrialization, genuine national independence and democracy.
 

A very serious obstacle is the GPH's undermining of basic bilateral agreements. In February, the GPH Panel, for the first time ever, attacked The Hague Joint Declaration as a document of perpetual division. It has also declared that the JASIG does not require compliance. It is only at their whim that they shall release detained NDFP consultants covered by the JASIG. It refuses to release the 350 political prisoners in accordance with the clear directive of the CARHRIHL.
 

Instead of complying with basic agreements, the GPH engages in continuous, vicious, deceptive and even simplistic propaganda attacks against the NDFP and avoids or refuses to seriously sit down and tackle the questions and issues on social, economic and political reforms. It perpetrates widespread human rights violations and has not effectively staved off the climate of impunity.
 

A huge obstacle is the US government. Its Counter Insurgency Guide of 2009 is followed by the Aquino regime in its Internal Security Plan, Oplan Bayanihan. This aims to militarily defeat the New People's Army through the triad concept of combat, intelligence and civil-military operations. Furthermore, the US stations interventionist troops in the Philippines.
 

The NDFP is firmly committed to pursue peace negotiations that address the roots of the armed conflict. It is determined to overcome the problems and difficulties with effective remedies. It is resolute in its decision to carry forward the people's struggle for national and social liberation.

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Legal experts press Philippines' Aquino to comply with peace agreements
By NDFP International Information Office
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 22:17 Hits: 338 News
 

(Utrecht, 15 November 2011) A newly-formed group of international legal experts yesterday pressed the Philippines' Benigno Aquino government to comply with past agreements forged with the revolutionary National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), as the only way forward to peacefully resolve the country's 40-year old armed conflict.

In a public meeting organized by the NDFP Negotiating Panel in Utrecht, the Netherlands, under the auspices of the University of Utrecht's Center for Conflict Studies, members of the newly-formed International Legal Advisory Team tackled issues and questions on the armed conflict and peace negotiations in the Philippines. The legal experts discussed the role of international law in advancing the stalled talks between the NDFP and the Aquino government.
 

Jan Fermon, professor of law at the University of Maastricht, explained that the NDFP and the government of the Republic of the Philippines have already inked 12 important agreements since peace negotiations resumed in 1992. “International law has always played a role in these agreements... international laws are useful instruments in resolving conflicts,” he argued.
Fermon cited the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL) as one important agreement signed in 1998, and which bounds both parties in the armed conflict to abide by human rights conventions and international humanitarian laws.
 

The GRP however, according to Fermon, has not respected its own commitment to abide by the agreements its has signed. “The only way forward,” he declared, “is to respect and comply with these agreements.”
 

A large group of university students, lawyers, social activists, and Filipino migrants attended the discussion in Utrecht's historic city center. In the panel were international legal luminaries Fermon and Jo Dereymaeker of Belgium, Richard Harvey and Ann Morris of the UK, and Edre U. Olalia of the Philippines. Also in the panel were Luis G. Jalandoni, Chairperson of the NDFP Negotiating Panel, and NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison.
 

The International Legal Advisory Team, currently composed of 13 legal experts from the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the Philippines, was formed earlier this year to advise and assist the NDFP peace panel on the peace negotiations, international human rights and humanitarian laws.
 

During the meeting, the Dutch-Philippines Solidarity Movement presented a petition calling on both parties to resume the peace talks. Theo Droog, the group's chairperson, asked those present to sign the petition: “We support serious and sincere discussions of basic reforms, to lay the ground for peace,”
 

Jalandoni, asked if there is a possibility of reaching an end to hostilities with the peace negotiations, explained that “an end game could be reached following the regular track and sequence of the negotiations... That is, conclude the remaining items in the agenda on social and economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms, and the end of hostilities and the disposition of forces.”
He averred, however, that there is a shortcut if the current Philippine government agrees to an NDFP offer of a truce and alliance on the basis of a general declaration of common intent. [NDFP-IIO]

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CPP doubts peace agreement to be reached by 2012 due to Aquino intransingence
Communist Party of the Philippines
November 10, 2011
Focus topics: Free NDF Consultants, Peace Talks

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today said it is becoming “increasingly doubtful” that a peace agreement between the Philippine government (GPH) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) will be reached by 2012 or any time within Benigno Aquino III’s term.
 

Th CPP issued this reaction after GPH chief negotiator Alexander Padilla said yesterday that the GPH has moved its target of forging an agreement with the NDFP to the end of next year, instead of June 2012.
“It is becoming increasingly doubtful that the GPH will succeed in forging a peace agreement with the NDFP due to its adamant refusal to comply with its standing obligations, particularly its commitment in January, February and September to release the detained consultants of the NDFP covered by the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG),” said the CPP.
 

“There remain at least 13 NDFP consultants who are being detained in military and police camps,” pointed out the CPP. “How can the GPH expect the NDFP to sit down in peace negotiations when a significant number of its representatives who are supposed to participate in the talks are being kept behind bars by the GPH?”
 

“The release of the JASIG-protected consultants of the NDF is a matter of palabra de honor on the part of the GPH,” said the CPP. “This year alone, the GPH has made the committment to release the NDF consultants in at least three occasions, the last of which was made last September in a meeting hosted by the representative of the Norwegian government. Now it is reneging on those commitments.”
“If the GPH expects to forge a peace agreement, whether with the NDFP or the MILF, it will have to prove itself capable of keeping its promises and its complying with its commitments,” said the CPP. “In both the peace talks with the NDFP and with the MILF, the GPH is showing itself incapable of fulfilling its obligations, thus making a mockery of the negotiations.”
 

“The GPH’s conduct in its peace negotiations with the NDFP shows that it is not really interested in forging a political settlement that would resolve the fundamental socio-economic and political concerns that lie at the root of the armed conflict,” said the CPP. “It is becoming increasingly clear that Aquino has a very myopic view of peace negotiations with the NDFP and deems them useful only if they effect the pacification and surrender of the revolutionary forces.”
 

“Aquino is demonstrating clearly that he does not understand what just and lasting peace is,” said the CPP. “His regime’s policies, which have not deviated from the past policy-impositions of the IMF and Word Bank show that he is not interested in addressing poverty and unemployment, in achieving social justice and empowering the people under a progressive and genuinely democratic political system.”
“While confining the peace negotiations to a narrow side alley, Aquino is widening the road of war for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP),” added the CPP. “Under the Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan, its armed forces have been given free rein to conduct brutal military operations in the countryside.”
“There is a renewed campaign of extrajudicial killings with at least one victim killed every ten days since Aquino assumed power,” said the CPP. “The political, economic, civil and cultural rights of hundreds of thousands of people, especially in the countryside are daily being trampled on by the AFP in the conduct of its so-called ‘peace missions’ which achieve nothing but the ‘peace of the silenced’.”
“Aquino’s road of war, however, will only lead to greater resistance and can only steel the people’s determination to wage revolutionary struggle.”

MANINDIGAN TAYO
ni Vince Fajardo Casilihan

balakid kay raming balakid
ang pinalilitaw ng pamahalaan
usapang pangkapayapaan
kayraming hadlang
paano na naman ito uumpisahan?

mapanlinlang napropaganda
at iba pang mga litanya
atake sa komunista
sa halip na pagsunod sa
pinaguusapang problema.

pinirmahang kasunduan
sa pagitan ng pamahalaan ng Pilipinas
at Pambansa Demokratikong Prente ng Pilipinas
hindi naipapatupad at di iginagalang
solusyon sana sa madaliang paglutas ng hidwaan.

kilalanin ang paggalang sa karapatang pantao
maging ng internasyunal na makataong batas
mahusay na pagtalima ito ang sadya
hindi ang kung ano anong alibi
upang hindi matuloy itong usapang pangkapayapaan.

hindi kailangan ang plaster na kaginhawahan
pagkat naitatago lamang ang sugat sa kailaliman
solusyong inilatag sa hapag, isa na sanang magandang hakbang
kaya lamang, sa dami ng nagmamagaling sa malakanyang
hindi tuloy matumbok dahil sa daming kaylangang pagtakpan.

itaguyod,pangalagaan at ipalaganap
ng ang mamamayan at nasa pamahalaan
lalong lalo na ang kasundaluhan
malaman ang kahalagahan ng napagkasunduan
itoy para sa kapakanan ng taumbayan.

lumong lumo ang manggagawa sa karapatang pantao
sa kinasasapitan ng sambayanan, laganap ang patayan
pagdukot at kung ano anong paglabag sa karapatan
na ang may kagagawan ay ang kasundaluhan
na sana'y tagapagbantay ng katahimikan.
 

gobyerno ni Pnoy dapat ng tumalima
sa kasunduang matagal ng napirmahan
ipabatid at ituro sa madla
tunay na rason at kahalagahan
ng pinirmahan ng magkabila.

huli doon, huli dito
maging may JASIG
di makaiwas sa aresto
dumarami ang nakukulong
na mga consultant sa usapan.

 

di iginagalang ang CARHIHL
na nauna ng napirmahan
ito sana ang umpisa para wakasan
matinding paglabag sa karapatan
ng mamamayan sa kapuluan.

sandamukal na Oplan ang ipinatupad
itoy kontra insurhensyang patakaran
gamit sa lumalaban sa pamahalaan
ngunit mamamayan ang direktang naaapektuhan
maging hanapbuhay di na magampanan.

ituloy ang usapang pangkapayapaan
sa pagitan ng pamahalaan
at pambansang prente ng pilipinas
upang mailatag ang sulosyong napagusapan
na matagal ng binbin at isinasantabi na lamang
nitong pamahalaan sa mamamayan.

manindigan tayo !

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Kamayan
ni Emmanuel Halabaso
 

Manunuod ako sa hindi kalayuan,
tanaw ang inyong mga paninindigan-

buong higpit kayong magkakamay
hindi ko nga lang alam
kung mayroon ba sa inyo ang nasaktan.

Kayo'y magbibitaw,
kayo'y magkakangitian
at magpapasintabi sa isa't isa.

Sabay ninyong pagmamasdan,
mga palad na ginamit sa kamayan;
binusisi ito at tinitigan-

ikaw na nasa kaliwa,
inalok muli ang palad
mas bukas, may pagtitiwala, umaasa

habang ang isa,
nagdadalawang-isip na abutin
baka masugatan, balat-sibuyas na palad.

Manipis na palad dahil sa anti-bacterial soap
gamitin daw sabi ng kanyang Uncle
panlinis sa madalas madumihang mga kamay.

PRESS RELEASE
NDFP International Information Office Utrecht-The Netherlands
15 November 2011
 

Legal experts press Philippines' Aquino to comply with peace agreements

 
(Utrecht, 15 November 2011) A newly-formed group of international legal experts yesterday pressed the Philippines' Benigno Aquino government to comply with past agreements forged with the revolutionary National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), as the only way forward to peacefully resolve the country's 40-year old armed conflict.
 

 In the panel: l-r: Prof. Jose Maria Sison(NDFP Chief Political Consultant), Luis G. Jalandoni (Chairperson-NDFP Negotiating Panel), Richard Harvey and Ann Morris (of the UK), Jan Fermon and Jo Dereymaeker (of Belgium), and Edre U. Olalia (of the Philippines) (photo: MN)

In a public meeting organized by the NDFP Negotiating Panel in Utrecht, the Netherlands, under the auspices of the University of Utrecht's Center for Conflict Studies, members of the newly-formed International Legal Advisory Team tackled issues and questions on the armed conflict and peace negotiations in the Philippines. The legal experts discussed the role of international law in advancing the stalled talks between the NDFP and the Aquino government.

Edre U. Olalia-forum’s moderator

Jan Fermon, professor of law at the University of Maastricht, explained that the NDFP and the government of the Republic of the Philippines have already inked 12 important agreements since peace negotiations resumed in 1992. “International law has always played a role in these agreements... international laws are useful instruments in resolving conflicts,” he argued.

Professor Jan Fermon

Fermon cited the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CAHRIHL) as one important agreement signed in 1998, and which bounds both parties in the armed conflict to abide by human rights conventions and international humanitarian laws.
 
The GRP however, according to Fermon, has not respected its own commitment to abide by the agreements its has signed. “The only way forward,” he declared, “is to respect and comply with these agreements.”
 
A large group of university students, lawyers, social activists, and Filipino migrants attended the discussion in Utrecht's historic city center. In the panel were international legal luminaries Fermon and Jo Dereymaeker of Belgium, Richard Harvey and Ann Morris of the UK, and Edre U. Olalia of the Philippines. Also in the panel were Luis G. Jalandoni, Chairperson of the NDFP Negotiating Panel, and NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison.

Attendees at the forum (photo: MN)

The International Legal Advisory Team, currently composed of 13 legal experts from the US, Europe, Latin America, Africa, South Asia and the Philippines, was formed earlier this year to advise and assist the NDFP peace panel on the peace negotiations, international human rights and humanitarian laws.
 
During the meeting, the Dutch-Philippines Solidarity Movement presented a petition calling on both parties to resume the peace talks. Theo Droog, the group's chairperson, asked those present to sign the petition: “We support serious and sincere discussions of basic reforms, to lay the ground for peace,”

Theo Droog

Jalandoni, asked if there is a possibility of reaching an end to hostilities with the peace negotiations, explained that “an end game could be reached following the regular track and sequence of the negotiations... That is, conclude the remaining items in the agenda on social and economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms, and the end of hostilities and the disposition of forces.”

Luis G. Jalandoni

He averred, however, that there is a shortcut if the current Philippine government agrees to an NDFP offer of a truce and alliance on the basis of a general declaration of common intent. [NDFP-IIO]

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Legal experts to Aquino govt: Comply with peace agreements

By RONALYN V. OLEA
“Agreements are binding and not only pieces of paper. One of the basic principles of international law is that agreements must be executed in good faith. There are no documents without obligation.” – Jan Fermon, professor of law at the University of Maastricht and a member of the International Legal Advisory Team

Tuesday, 15 November 2011 08:00

Peace Talks

Press Conference via Skype by members of the NDFP Negotiating Panel and the International Legal Advisory Team (ILAT), held simultaneously at the NDFP International Information Office in Utrecht, The Netherlands and the NDFP Section of the Joint Secretariat, Joint Monitoring Committee in Quezon City, the Philippines, 14 November 2011.