Category: Press statements

Duterte has never been interested in serious peace negotiations with the NDFP in the first place

Up to now the public money promised to make up for the loss of incomes of workers and odd jobbers from Duterte through mayors and barangays has not yet materialized

including testing kits for the benefit of the masses, ventilators and the gear for the personal protection of the frontline health workers

The lockdown has aggravated the Covid-19 problem by preventing testing and treatment of the sick and generating the hunger problem for millions of people who are prevented from earning a living

The NDFP and the broad masses of the people themselves need to refrain from launching tactical offensives to gain more time and opportunity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to look after the health and over-all welfare of the people in both urban and rural areas

the regime is quick to take advantage of the pandemic to grab more powers and more public money for its discretionary use

The offensive operations of the AFP and PNP are continuing without any stop and include red-tagging, abductions and extrajudicial killings, compelling people to attend fake surrender meetings, staging fake encounters that kill and victimize ordinary peasants, bombing rural communities in certain regions and forcing the evacuation of the poor peasants and indigenous people and delivering the land and other natural resources to foreign and big comprador corporations.

It is brutal for the Duterte regime to use the military and police to ban all forms of public transport, to mass up people at so many trunk lines and checkpoints just to check identification cards, mix up the healthy with possibly the unhealthy persons and order them to return home

The ceasefire declaration by the GRP or the Duterte regime is premature, if not insincere and false.

The Covid-19 is a kind of virus that causes illness that manifested itself in Wuhan, China in December 2019