Reds get in touch with for resumption of peace talks amid funds freeze threat
MANILA, Philippines — Leftist leaders on Saturday once again identified as for the resumption of peace talks soon after the federal government declared the designation of the Communist Bash of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Military (NPA), as terrorist organizations.
National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) advisor Rafael Baylosis said the communist motion and the governing administration should abandon their all-out war tactic and return to peace negotiations but the Duterte administration must to start with revoke its designation of the CPP-NPA as terror groups.
The NDFP is the umbrella organization of the countrywide democratic movement in the country and represents the communist insurgency in peace negotiations that have dragged on and off for 34 decades.
“The terror law is just one of the greatest obstacles [to] the resumption of peace talks amongst the [government] and the CPP. This is also what halted peace talks less than the Arroyo administration, when she prodded the US federal government to checklist the two the CPP and [its founder] Jose Maria Sison as terrorist[s] [in 2002],” he said. “This was undone by the Aquino administration.”
“To be in a position to resume peace talks, [the] Duterte administration will have to undo its actions,” Baylosis included.
3-term congressman Satur Ocampo, previously of the leftist group Bayan Muna, insisted that the nationwide democratic movement was engaged in a revolt and not terrorism.
“Rebellion stays underneath jurisprudence. The CPP and the NPA insists it is engaged in rebel and not in terrorism,” Ocampo explained.
He explained the Duterte administration “has arbitrarily blockaded this highway of peace by means of negotiations by pursuing a brutal navy path in addressing the armed conflict.”“There are moments [President Duterte] is very rational, but most of the time he is impulsive. [So] it remains to be seen what will materialize in the following 18 months,” Ocampo included.
Forging a peace agreement with the communist insurgency was a single of Mr. Duterte’s campaign claims and he named leftist leaders to essential Cupboard positions in a bid to end the 51-yr insurgency.
But he deserted the talks and claimed that he experienced grown weary of the insincerity of the communist rebels, who frequently attacked stability forces while their leaders overseas, particularly Sison in the Netherlands, attempted to extend negotiations.
The Armed Forces of the Philippines reported the NDFP was insincere in its declared desire for peace and only required to reinforce weakened forces as they sought funding from global communist businesses.
To end the financial support from overseas, the Anti-Terrorism Council, developed by the controversial Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, declared the CPP and the NPA as terrorist companies, enabling the Anti-Cash Laundering Council (AMLC) to scrutinize and freeze the groups’ found out monies.
The AMLC is also allowed by Republic Act No. 9160, or the Anti-Funds Laundering Act of 2001, to scrutinize the accounts of teams or men and women linked to the CPP-NPA, broadening the government’s get to in cutting financial help to leftist companies.
—With studies from Jerome Aning and Tina G. Santos

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