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Joma Sison: NPA rebels won't be idle amid ceasefire
Joma Sison: NPA rebels won't be idle amid ceasefire
Dharel Placido,
ABS-CBN News
Published Jun 22, 2016 09:07 PM PHT
DAVAO CITY - Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison said the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Philippine communist movement, will not be idle despite an impending truce with the government under President-elect Rodrigo Duterte.
DAVAO CITY - Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison said the New People's Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Philippine communist movement, will not be idle despite an impending truce with the government under President-elect Rodrigo Duterte.
Sison allayed worries from members of the Left that the ceasefire would result in the weakening of the NPA.
Sison allayed worries from members of the Left that the ceasefire would result in the weakening of the NPA.
“Some people are worried that the ceasefire might be prolonged that the New People’s Army would disintegrate or be gravely weakened and yet the comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms might not be satisfactory or might not be implemented at all,” Sison said in a video call session with his supporters in Davao City on Wednesday.
“Some people are worried that the ceasefire might be prolonged that the New People’s Army would disintegrate or be gravely weakened and yet the comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms might not be satisfactory or might not be implemented at all,” Sison said in a video call session with his supporters in Davao City on Wednesday.
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Sison said the interim ceasefire between the NPA and the government will be conditional, and the sincerity of the Duterte administration in the peace negotiations will be measured by how it will implement the reforms that the communist movement seeks.
Sison said the interim ceasefire between the NPA and the government will be conditional, and the sincerity of the Duterte administration in the peace negotiations will be measured by how it will implement the reforms that the communist movement seeks.
“There is a plan to accelerate the peace negotiations and thereby to measure the seriousness of the Duterte government to make substantive progress in the peace negotiations,” he said.
“There is a plan to accelerate the peace negotiations and thereby to measure the seriousness of the Duterte government to make substantive progress in the peace negotiations,” he said.
“The people’s army will not be idle even it is in a mode of self-defense and does not actively carry out offensive military campaigns and operations against the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police.”
“The people’s army will not be idle even it is in a mode of self-defense and does not actively carry out offensive military campaigns and operations against the Armed Forces of the Philippines and Philippine National Police.”
Sison said the NPA will continue to be actively involved in “politico-military training, defense and protection of the environment and natural resources against illegal mining, logging and land grabbing, and it can continue to suppress drug dealing, cattle rustling, robbery, kidnapping and other criminal acts as well as despotic acts of local tyrants.”
Sison said the NPA will continue to be actively involved in “politico-military training, defense and protection of the environment and natural resources against illegal mining, logging and land grabbing, and it can continue to suppress drug dealing, cattle rustling, robbery, kidnapping and other criminal acts as well as despotic acts of local tyrants.”
The Philippines and leftist rebels plan to declare a ceasefire before Duterte’s first policy speech in Congress next month.
The Philippines and leftist rebels plan to declare a ceasefire before Duterte’s first policy speech in Congress next month.
The truce will be declared after formal peace negotiations resume in the third week of July, one week before Duterte's first State of the Nation Address, said incoming labor secretary Silvestre Bello, who is part of the negotiations.
The truce will be declared after formal peace negotiations resume in the third week of July, one week before Duterte's first State of the Nation Address, said incoming labor secretary Silvestre Bello, who is part of the negotiations.
The nearly half-century long Maoist campaign of the New People's Army (NPA), one of the world's longest running insurgencies, has claimed over 30,000 lives, according to military estimates.
The nearly half-century long Maoist campaign of the New People's Army (NPA), one of the world's longest running insurgencies, has claimed over 30,000 lives, according to military estimates.
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