By Monitoring Committee National Democratic Front of the Philippines
The Chairman of the Human Rights Monitoring Committee of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP-MC) today chided GRP Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Teresita Deles for following in the footsteps of Norberto Gonzales in dishing out disinformation about the New People’s Army (NPA) in an attempt to derail the resumption of the formal talks in the peace negotiations between the NDFP and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).
“For the past several months, Deles has been talking about the resumption of the formal peace talks in the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. But at every turn she dishes out lies and disinformation such as that the NDFP has not responded to her ghost emissaries, or that the NDFP is 'imposing preconditions' to the resumption of the formal talks, or that the NPA is continuing with its tactical offensives – as if the GRP armed forces have stopped their massive military operations in the countryside, especially in Mindanao and the Visayas, in pursuit of Oplan Bantay Laya 2,” Agcaoili said.
By SIMON “Ka Filiw” NAOGSAN, Spokesperson Cordillera People’s Democratic Front
During the Mountain Province Provincial Peace and Order Council (PPOC) meeting last 5 August, Col. Eliseo Posadas, 501st Brigade commander (of the Philippine Army), called for local peace talks and personally guaranteed the safety of the spokesperson of the Cordillera People's Democratic Front and other members of the revolutionary movement whom he invited to attend.
We believe the AFP’s push for local peace talks is just another deceptive public relations and psywar tactic.
By JORGE "Ka Oris" MADLOS Spokesperson, NDFP - Mindanao
All the four divisions under the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) based in Mindanao are currently conducting massive and widespread military operations against the revolutionary forces in all the five New People's Army (NPA) regions in the whole island, particularly more intense in the Southern Mindanao Region. These began prior and during the inauguration of Noynoy Aquino, and continued before, during and after Noynoy Aquino's SONA, and still escalating almost without let-up and without rest of troops in between operations.
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