After the destruction of the city and the forced evacuation of more than 300,000 people, there is overwhelming uncertainty whether they would get sufficient assistance for relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction. Most people are now in the dark whether they can get back their previous home lots and the remains of their ruined houses and shops.

The Vice President is wise and sober and knows how to appreciate peace negotiations as the way to solve an armed conflict. She is probably aware that the GRP and NDFP negotiating panels last November were ready to finalize the agreements on general amnesty of political prisoners, major parts of CASER and the coordinated unilateral ceasefire preparatory to the bilateral ceasefire supposedly desired by the AFP

Militaristen setzen auf Kapitulation der National Democratic Front of the Philippines

Explaining why the bounties would not work, Sison, who is now chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front, said “even when the reward money for the head of a revolutionary is P1 million, the killer-informer is lucky if he gets five pesos because the corrupt military officers get a share of the reward money from the level of generals downwards.”

Sabi ni Duterte na nakakolekta na siya ng 20 billion peso fund mula sa mga negosyante para sa edukasyon ng mga anak ng mga sundalo. Mabuti tanungin ng mga sundalo si Duterte kung sino at anong entidad ang may tangan at nagmamaneho sa pondo

Comment of Prof. Jose Maria Sison: Several times, Duterte is a traitor to the Filipino people. He surrenders to China Filipino sovereign rights and maritime rights in the West Philippine Sea. At the same time, he allows US facilities and forces to stay on Philippine soil to help him kill the Filipino revolutionaries.

People know that even when the reward money for the head of a revolutionary is 1 million pesos, the killer-informer is lucky if he gets five pesos because the corrupt military officers get a share of the reward money from the level of generals downwards. The killer-informer cannot complain because for him to do so he would be to broadcast his act of betrayal and invite punishment from the revolutionary movement or his own murder by the military agents of Duterte

I have been informed that the first and second batches of the so-called NPA surrenderees or rebel returnees, presented to Duterte by his military and barangay officials, are all fake. These impostors are close relatives of barangay officials and soldiers in civilian clothes. They are into the charade for the junket in Manila.