Joma surrenders on negotiating for peace with Duterte

FILE: Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison (Photo: Joma Sison/Facebook)

MANILA, Philippines — Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison has surrendered on the possibility of negotiating for peace with President Rodrigo Duterte.

Sison, who is a former professor of Duterte, said it is difficult to hold a ‘’serious’’ conversation with the latter, urging the president to undergo psychiatric examination.

“At this juncture, I must say that it is too difficult or impossible to have any kind of serious conversation or negotiations anywhere with someone already crazed by power, Fentanyl and the drive for fascist dictatorship,” Sison said in a statement posted at the website of the National Democratic Front (NDF) yesterday.

Sison also said Duterte, whom he accused of having a problem on his ‘’mentality and behavior’’, is using the CPP and the New People’s Army (NPA) to defend his declaration and extension of martial law in Mindanao and other military efforts in the country.

“Duterte is either ignorant or merely contemptuous of the peace process. His complaints or allegations against the CPP and NPA can be easily submitted by his negotiating panel to the Joint Monitoring Committee created under the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law,” the founding chairman said.

Sison also said Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, whom he described as the president’s parrot, should also put his head and mouth under examination “for presuming that out of his own bloated sense of self-importance dependent on a nutty sh**hole he can evaluate and downgrade others who are very much beyond his sphere of psychopancy. He should realize by this time that human rights associations and activists are contemptuous of him as the servant of a monstrous human rights violator.

However, Sison expressed happiness that Duterte has intention in meeting him.

‘’When I first read the report on Duterte´s interview with MindaNews I had some misgivings that he did not mean what he said because of his notoriety for saying one thing and then saying the opposite within a short period and also because of his arrogance and anger in setting some absurd preconditions,” he said.

“His previous threats to kill me and warned me against my meeting him in any place under his full control and under conditions of his proclaimed all-out war policy, martial law, termination of the peace negotiations and designation of the CPP-NPA and their suspected supporters as terrorists,” Sison added.