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ARROYO AND RAZON PROCLAIM
END OF GRP-NDFP PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
By Prof. Jose Maria Sison
Chief Political Consultant
NDFP Negotiating Panel
17 September 2009
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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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).
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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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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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