2018

It is unfair and unjust for DND Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to accuse me of having prompted his boss Duterte to incite civilians and AFP officers and men to kill 5 NPA suspects everyday and induce them with the reward of 25,000 pesos per victim. It is entirely the responsibility of his commander-in-chief Duterte to make the incitements and inducements to murder people in violation of human rights and international humanitarian law.

Stressing the rebels were “always willing to negotiate peace” with Duterte or someone else, Sison, who is now chief political consultant of the NDFP, said: “It takes two sides in the current civil war in the Philippines to agree to negotiate with each other and arrive at comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms to lay the basis of a just and lasting peace.”

He deliberately reneged on his promise to amnesty and release all political prisoners. He kept on terminating the peace negotiations (three times!) by raising to the press complaints which he should have submitted through his panel to the Joint Monitoring Committee in the same manner that the NDFP had submitted to this body bigger and more serious complaints against the continuance of AFP, PNP and CAFGU offensives during periods of ceasefire. The NDFP complaints involved AFP bombing of communities and mass murder of children, women and elderly people.

There will be a bigger civil war in the Philippines if Duterte succeeds in concentrating powers in his hands as a fascist dictator on top of an overexpensive layer of regional governments run by corrupt bureaucrats, big compradors, landlords, dynasties and warlords.

“The NDFP is ever ready to negotiate with the GRP as soon as the GRP [or GPH, meaning government of the Philippines] ceases to terminate the peace negotiations and allows its negotiating panel to negotiate with its NDFP counterpart,’ Sison said in a statement sent to INQUIRER.net.

“We laud Norway’s special envoy for exerting efforts to revive the peace talks,” said Ryan Amper, spokesperson of Barug Katungod Mindanao.

He said it was important for the talks to resume so that the government and the NDF can finalize the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (Caser), which was seen to address poverty—the root cause of the insurgency.

For both the GRP and NDFP, it is easier and more economical to seek lasting peace through negotiations to address the roots of the armed conflict and forge comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms than to rely solely on the use of military force

Acting like the chieftain of a criminal gang, the fascist dictator obtains the personal loyalty of AFP and CAFGU officers and personnel by involving them in mass murder and bribing them with cash, promotions and other rewards. Thus, Duterte converts the AFP and CAFGU into his private army for committing crimes and supporting his fascist dictatorship.

“…To make his tantrums more impressive, Duterte prated about an independent foreign policy, either by playing down the U.S. and playing up China and Russia, or simply by playing off one foreign power against another to his advantage…
…All the while [as Duterte made his anti-U.S. comments] … Lorenzana was assuring the CIA and Pentagon that Duterte was under control and was ready to play ball with his friend and psycho-political lookalike, Trump,” Sison added…
…The clear rebound in U.S.-Philippine relations was confirmed last November, when Duterte sang a Filipino love song to Trump, “upon the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States” (as he put it), that included evocative lyrics that translate as: “You are the light in my world, a half of this heart of mine.”

The turmoil and breakup will certainly occur after the railroading of a pseudo-federal constitution in which all powers are overconcentrated in the hands of the fascist dictator Duterte who will lord over an overcostly layer of regional governments run by corrupt bureaucrats, big compradors, landlords, dynasties and warlords.