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Press Statement
27 February 2002
MACAPAGAL REGIME IS KILLING GRP-NDFP PEACE
NEGOTIATIONS
Jose Maria Sison
NDFP Chief Political Consultant
The Filipino people should know that the
Macapagal regime is systematically killing the peace
negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the
Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP).
The regime has taken the following steps by way of
manifesting its loss of interest in the peace negotiations.
- It has informed the NDFP that it wants to nullify The
Hague Joint Declaration (framework agreement) and the Joint
Agreement on the Sequence, Formation and Operationalization
of the Reciprocal Working Committees (agreement on the
sequence of the negotiations).
- It has in fact demanded the capitulation of the NDFP
through a so-called final peace agreement rushed in a few
months of mock negotiations. It has therefore grievously
insulted the NDFP.
- It has evaded the formation of the Joint Monitoring
Committee under the GRP-NDFP Comprehensive Agreement on
Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
(CARHRIHL) and has expressed the wish to lay aside this
comprehensive agreement.
- It has increased surveillance on NDFP consultants and, in
violation of the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity
Guarantees (JASIG), has threatened to arrest them.
- It has escalated campaigns of military suppression against
the revolutionary forces and the people and in the process
wantonly violated the CARHRIHL by kidnapping, torturing and
murdering suspected revolutionaries and ordinary civilians
and by carrying out bombardments, arson and bulldozing to
force the evacuation of the masses from their homes and
farms.
- It is whipping up a vicious psywar campaign to demonize
the revolutionary forces and leaders by depicting them as
"terrorists" for the purpose of preparing public
opinion for the deployment of US aggressor troops against
them.
The Macapagal regime is hellbent on killing the GRP-NDFP
peace negotiations in the belief that it stands to benefit
politically and financially from a pro-imperialist,
anticommunist and "antiterrorist" position. #
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