{"id":196354,"date":"2019-01-04T22:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T03:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=196354"},"modified":"2019-01-04T22:51:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T03:51:55","slug":"communists-hard-to-deal-with-prrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/04\/communists-hard-to-deal-with-prrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Communists hard to deal with: PRRD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte holds a situation briefing with members of his cabinet and local government officials to discuss disaster response measures in the aftermath of Tropical Depression (TD) ‘Usman’. at the Camarines Sur Watersports Complex (CWC) in Pili, Camarines Sur on January 4, 2019 ALFRED FRIAS\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— There is a slim chance of pursuing peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) as their demands are hard to meet, President Rodrigo R. Duterte said Friday.<\/p>\n

In a situational briefing after his aerial inspection in the aftermath of Tropical Depression Usman in Camarines Sur, Duterte said unlike Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) founding chairman Nur Misuari, who is open to peace negotiations, CPP founding chairman Jose Maria Sison is\u00a0difficult to negotiate with.<\/p>\n

“Wala tayong makuha diyan sa NPA. Maski na sabihin nilang walang<\/em>\u00a0coalition but they want to join\u00a0yung mga<\/em>\u00a0economic bodies\u00a0natin gaya ng<\/em>\u00a0NEDA (National Economic and Development Authority),\u00a0mahirap yan<\/em>\u00a0(We cannot get anything from the NPA. Even if they say they do not want a coalition, but they want to join our economic bodies like the NEDA, it’s a hard thing to do),” he said.<\/p>\n

The President\u00a0said Sison’s fellow CPP-NPA-NDF negotiators Luis Jalandoni and Fidel Agcaoili are also hard to deal with.<\/p>\n

“Si<\/em>\u00a0Agcaoili,\u00a0hinahaluan ng mga<\/em>\u00a0legal-legal\u00a0yan<\/em>\u00a0(Agcaoili is always mixing things with legal jargon). They came and wanted to talk to me,\u00a0sabi ko<\/em>\u00a0(I said), ‘No.’ You come, cut, and cut cleanly, you adopt the democracy,” he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte added that leftist personalities previously in his Cabinet, particularly former Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) secretary Rafael Mariano and former Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) secretary Judy Taguiwalo, pushed for questionable policies, with Mariano allegedly urging people to occupy vacant lots and Taguiwalo allegedly prioritizing NPA members in the distribution of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) benefits.<\/p>\n

“He (Mariano) was there, a Cabinet member at that. He was egging people\u00a0na mag-okupasyon<\/em>\u00a0(to occupy), if there is a vacant lot.\u00a0Kaya<\/em>(So) I was forced to come up, sabi ko<\/em>\u00a0(I said), ‘Do not do that because I will order the law enforcers to arrest you, if you fight, to shoot you dead,'” the President said.<\/p>\n

NPA members,\u00a0he said, do not know the impact of their insurgency and just blindly follow Sison.<\/p>\n

The CPP-NPA, in earlier reports, had been involved in mass murders, extortion, and violation of indigenous people’s rights.<\/p>\n

The US State Department and the European Union have both tagged the CPP-NPA as terrorist organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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