CPP says no to "pretending to talk" with local governments

By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Kodao Productions

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) castigated the announcement by Malacañan of an executive order for localized peace negotiations. After the local National Democratic Front's local groups rejected peace talks with local authorities, the PCP itself rejected the offer, saying that President Duterte would only "want to make peace". Read: Revolutionary groups reject plan of "local peace negotiations"

Malacañang announced yesterday that it would soon issue an executive order to pursue "localized peace negotiations" instead of formal negotiations between the government the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) abroad.

Peace talks are a sham, a waste of people 's money and are doomed to failure. It's a worn-out tactic of psywar to project victory to conceal AFP's continued failure to suppress the people's resistance and stem the steady growth of the NPA (New People & # 39; s) Army), "said the PCP

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Earlier, NDF-Panay and the Cordillera People's Democratic Front issued statements rejecting localized peace talks between local revolutionary groups and the GRP

. "Background with programs riddled with corruption such as" Balik-Baril Program ", Global Local Integration Program and recent surrender campaign, the CPP pointed out.

" Only local officials and military officers are happy with the & # 39; "localized peace talks," a money-generating racket with hundreds of millions of funds that will surely end up in their pockets, "said the CPP in a statement released Friday, June 13. The party accused AFP field officers of being too zealous to evoke the illusion of "mass capitulations," where hundreds of local residents are gathered in villages occupied by the city. 39, AFP and later misrepresented in front of the public as "Surrenderees"

They stated that nearly 8,000 people had surrendered since January, after reporting earlier this year that he There were only 3,000 members of the NPA, said the CPP

adding that AFP funds are funded directly by Malacañan. 19659005] "The Party declares that [NPA] and all the revolutionary forces are united under the central leadership of the Party and unequivocally support the NDFP Negotiating Panel in its representation of all the revolutionary forces in the negotiations with the GRP". "Surely these" localized "peace negotiations claim they will not even involve a single, authentic revolutionary force, and Duterte will certainly only negotiate with his own shadow," said the CPP. Reposed by