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Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison (Joma) of Friday accused President Rodrigo Duterte as the number 1 terrorist in the country for allegedly running amok, slandering people under the guise of fighting terrorism.

It is still good to return to the aforesaid package. If Duterte is serious about resuming peace negotiations, he can simply authorize his negotiating panel chairman DOLE secretary Bello to meet with his NDFP counterpart Fidel Agcaoili in order to start preparations for the resumption of negotiations

Sison warned that in the case of the counterinsurgency campaign, “the list of surrenderers serves as the basis for the military to fulfill their quota of killing revolutionary suspects at the variable rates of P25,000 to P100,000 per head, depending on the rank ascribable to the victim,” referring to Duterte’s recent offers of bounties for slain rebels

By: Professor Jose Maria Sison Published 19 December 2017 https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Dutertes-Scheme-of-Fascist-Dictatorship-20171219-0010.html By his pseudo-independent foreign policy, Duterte is trying to turn the Philippines into a condominium of the imperialist…

One week after he was elected president, I sent Fidel Agcaoili to confer with him and he promised to release all political prisoners listed by the NDFP. Soon thereafter, he offered to appoint to his cabinet four CPP representatives to be in charge of the departments of labor and employment, agrarian reform, environment and natural resources and social welfare and development.

“You are dealing with fake news and fake claims from the Duterte war machinery. You get a lot of deception from the Duterte regime, aside from mass murder and rising prices of basic goods and services,” Sison added.

Pacific Eagle appears to be a major escalation of U.S. intervention in the Philippines at a time when tensions in the Korean Peninsula are becoming explosive and when China is transitioning from a regional to a global power. And just as in Plan Colombia, there is both the regional and the internal dimension.

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.”

“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.