NDFP demands Loida Magpatoc’s release
National Democratic Front of the Philippines Negotiating Panel interim chairperson Julie De Lima said Loida Magpatoc is an expert on land reform and rural development who helped draft their version of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms with fellow peace consultant Randall Echanis and others.
Groups slam school’s decision to turn over peace books to military
“[T]he university administration has practically surrendered its academic freedom to the state security agencies that have constantly undermined our people’s quest for a just and lasting peace,” Pilgrims for Peace said.
Groups describe as ‘prank’ Duterte’s amnesty offer to Leftists
“[T]he premise, framework, and implication of the use of the term ‘communist terrorist group’ render this kind of amnesty patently objectionable and unacceptable, legally and politically,” National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers president Edre Olalia said.
Joma, peace advocates: ATC move vs. NDFP ‘diabolical’, to worsen armed conflict
“The diabolical purpose of the Duterte regime in designating the NDFP as terrorist cannot be understated because this has been preceded by the murder of NDFP consultants committed so flagrantly by Duterte death squads,” NDFP chief political consultant Jose Ma. Sison said.
GRP designates NDFP as ‘terrorist organization’
In its Resolution No. 21 (2021) issued last June 23, the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) has designated the NDFP as a terrorist organization/association, saying the group is “an integral and inseparable part of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army (NPA).”
Gov’t freeze of Casambre bank accounts ‘pathetic’
Xandra Liza Biseño, daughter of jailed NDFP consultant Rey Claro Casambre, said their family’s real assets and their most valued possessions cannot be found in her father’s modest bank accounts the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC) and the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) recently ordered frozen.
Joma looks past the ‘treacherous’ Duterte for peace talks resumption
“I assure these fascists (in the GRP) that the CPP, NPA and NDFP have enough brains to think that even peace negotiations in a foreign neutral venue have become too risky and costly for the NDFP after the murder of so many NDFP peace consultants,” NDFP chief political consultant Jose Ma. Sison said.
Reds say Masbate incident will be investigated internally
The NDFP said it asserts its duty to investigate the incident under its Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) with the GRP.
AMLC freezes NDFP consultant’s bank account; immoral and reprehensible order, wife says
“Any investigation would easily reveal the official origin of those deposits and why it is wrongful, in fact immoral and reprehensible, to subject them to any freeze order as this would only perpetuate the injustice and tragedy that those accounts seek to atone for and indemnify,” Lim said
NDFP to Carpio: Hague Joint Declaration, not GRP Charter, to remain as talks framework
“This means that no party, neither the (GRP) nor the (NDFP) shall make a precondition insisting that its constitution be the sole determinant of the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations,” de Lima said.