From the Website of PRWC CPP-NPA-NDF
Article links: https://www.ndfp.org/how-duterte-sabotaged-the-grp-ndfp-peace-process/
NDFP awaits GRP’s written notice of termination
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By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
November 24, 2017
Chief Political Consultant
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
November 24, 2017
The common drafts were those pertaining to:
- the general amnesty and release of all political prisoners in compliance with the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL),
- the coordinated unilateral ceasefires (CUC) as the advance from a stand down type of ceasefire from the fifth to the sixth round of formal talks in January 2018; and
- Part I Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ARRD) and Part II National Industrialization and Economic Development (NIED) of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER).
It was also expected that the negotiations on the Comprehensive Agreement on Political and Constitutional Reforms (CAPCR) would begin in the sixth round and be completed anytime between March and May of 2018 on time for possible revisions of the 1987 Constitution of GRP.
Unfortunately, Duterte the principal of the GRP Negotiating Panel started on Nov. 18 to rant every day against the CPP, NPA and the NDFP in connection with recent incidents in the armed conflict. He also ranted against the entire peace process until Nov. 23 when he made his Proclamation No. 360 terminating the peace negotiations.
He violated the mutual agreement that talks would be discreet until there would be good news to announce at the end of the fifth or sixth round of formal talks. In the course of his rants, Duterte unwittingly exposed his scarce, shallow and defective knowledge of the peace process such as the following:
1. He cited alleged recent incidents in the armed conflict which he
used as false basis for slandering the revolutionary forces and
threatening the termination of the peace negotiations and the outlawing
of the revolutionary forces and legal democratic forces as terrorists.
In the absence of ceasefire between the GRP and NDFP, he through his
Negotiating Panel should have submitted his complaints to the Joint
Monitoring Committee (JMC) under CARHRIHL.
The NDFP has always submitted to the JMC its complaints of HR and IHL violations committed by the AFP and PNP under the ceaseless all-out war policy, Oplan Kapayapaan and martial law in Mindanao. These violations are far worse in scale and severity than those alleged by Duterte against the NPA. And yet NDFP never threatened to terminate the peace negotiations.
The NDFP has always submitted to the JMC its complaints of HR and IHL violations committed by the AFP and PNP under the ceaseless all-out war policy, Oplan Kapayapaan and martial law in Mindanao. These violations are far worse in scale and severity than those alleged by Duterte against the NPA. And yet NDFP never threatened to terminate the peace negotiations.
2. Duterte spouted lies like the NDFP ignored the GRP proposal for a
stand down agreement prior to the adoption and implementation of the
coordinated unilateral ceasefire. Showing gross ignorance of the peace
process, he even referred to The Netherlands as the facilitator rather
than the Royal Norwegian Government.
There are symptoms that Duterte is mentally unfit to handle the
complexities of the affairs of his state and the peace process between
the GRP and NDFP. GRP officials in his Cabinet and the reactionary armed
forces should consider whether he is mentally fit for his office or
needs to be replaced in accordance with their 1987 Constitution.
Among his lucid statements in the course of his rants are those
pertaining to his voluntary admission as a fascist in the service of the
US (Amboy), his overwhelming desire for killing and war and his advice
to the NDFP to negotiate with his successor in due time.###
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