NDFP desires resumption of formal talks but GRP sets capitulation as precondition
Fidel V. Agcaoili
Chairperson
NDFP Committee on Human Rights
Co-chairperson
GRP-NDFP Joint Monitoring Committee
December 19, 2004
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:
- 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.
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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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