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“This agreement on coordinated unilateral ceasefire is in the same package of draft agreements, including the draft amnesty to release all NDFP-listed political prisoners in compliance with CARHRIHL and the drafts of such major parts of CASER as Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ARRD) and National Industrialization and Economic Development (NIED),” Sison said.

Sison said the concurrence of Congress is needed for a presidential amnesty proclamation to release all political prisoners in compliance with the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) in exchange for a mutually effective ceasefire as the first step towards the end of hostilities.

“The cooperation of Congress is also needed to pass the laws for enabling the realization and implementation of the policy agreements to be embodied in the comprehensive agreements on social and economic reforms, political and constitutional reforms and the end of hostilities and disposition of forces,”

Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat, who was among 60 lawmakers who signed an “appeal” to Duterte to continue the peace talks, said he believes communication lines between government and the left “have not really been cut off.”

At least 22 party-list representatives and 40 district representatives signed House Resolution 1803 on March 22, urging President Rodrigo R. Duterte to return to the peace table with the communist group and continue discussions on Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER), dubbed as the “heart and soul” of the peace talks, and Comprehensive Agreement on Political Reforms (CAPCR)

“The concurrence of Congress is needed for a presidential amnesty proclamation to release all political prisoners in compliance with the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law in exchange for a mutually effective ceasefire as the first step towards the end of hostilities,” he added.

Sison said the CPP and the New People’s Army (NPA), under the National Democratic Front (NDF), will remain open to several possibilities of talking peace until Duterte and his subordinates change their minds and agree to negotiate or when a new administration is in place.

“War is bad.” Ifugao Rep. Teddy Baguilat Jr. says an absolute military intervention will not solve the conflict between the gov’t and the CPP-NPA-NDF.

Die Philippinen sind ein Land, welches unglaublich reich an Ressourcen ist. Diese werden von ausländischen Mächten und ihren lokalen Handlangern geplündert und nichts davon kommt dem Volk zugute, das würdelos in unfassbarer Armut, Elend und Dreck leben und jeden Tag um seine Existenz kämpfen muss. Doch die philippinischen Kommunisten zeigen, wie man sich dagegen wehrt und kämpft!

“If king Duterte is determined to destroy the revolutionary movement as he has announced, then [there is] no choice for the revolutionary movement but to fight him single-mindedly, no more hesitation,”