Peace advocates and militant farmers appealed to both panels of the government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines to continue the peace negotiations despite the withdrawal of the unilateral ceasefires by both Parties.
JASIG is an agreement between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the NDFP which was signed by their respective negotiating panels on February 24, 1995.
Speaking before the family of soldiers killed in a clash with New People’s Army in Cagayan de Oro City on Sunday afternoon, Duterte said he is seeing the Communist Party of the Philippines, its armed wing the NPA and the NDFP as terrorist organizations.
President Rodrigo Duterte said communist negotiators with whom the government is supposedly working with for a peace agreement should go back to prison.
President Rodrigo Duterte is suspending the peace negotiations between the government and the Communists.
A progressive lawmaker called on the peace panels from the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and National Democratic Front of the Philippines to continue the peace talks despite the lifting of ceasefires from both sides earlier this week.
President Rodrigo Duterte lifted Friday the government’s declaration of ceasefire with the New People’s Army, armed-wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines said it will recommend to the New People’s Army to release the three prisoners-of-war in Sultan Kudarat and Surigao del Sur as measure of goodwill in the peace negotiations.
In his speech during the 38th National Convention of the Philippine Association of Water Districts, Duterte said the revolutionary forces should not coerce him as he had already “conceded too much, too soon.”
Human rights group criticized President Rodrigo Duterte for including the military and reviving the Philippine Constabulary on the war on illegal drugs, saying that it would result to more human rights violations.
