{"id":241429,"date":"2020-01-05T17:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-05T22:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=241429"},"modified":"2020-01-05T17:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T22:57:48","slug":"clarify-some-issues-in-caser-before-peace-talks-ntf-elcac-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/01\/05\/clarify-some-issues-in-caser-before-peace-talks-ntf-elcac-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarify some issues in CASER before peace talks: NTF ELCAC exec"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr., of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC), expressed his concern Sunday night, two days before the holiday ceasefire between the government and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) expires midnight of Jan. 7. (File photo<\/a> screengrabbed from RTVMalacanang\/Youtube<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 \u00a0The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will support another round of peace talks provided some issues in the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER) are clarified.<\/p>\n

Major General Antonio Parlade, Jr., of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC), expressed his concern Sunday night, two days before the holiday ceasefire between the government and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) expires midnight of Jan. 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the government decides to extend the truce, the AFP will comply. It will even support another round of peace talks. But first, the following needs to be clarified, especially on CASER,\u201d he said referring to the CPP\u2019s NDFP\u2019s version of the CASER dated October 23, 2017.<\/p>\n

International repercussions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Parlade said under CASER\u2019s National Industrialization and Economic Development,\u00a0Article VII Financing National Industrialization,<\/em>\u00a0Section 1. a<\/em>\u00a0calls for the confiscation and expropriation of assets of foreign monopoly capitalists, big compradors, and bureaucrat capitalists.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis sounds interesting but we are almost certain there will be international repercussions, if not foreign military intervention, in order for foreign governments to protect their interests in the Philippines.,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He said the AFP cannot defend national interest because CASER also calls for the demobilization of the AFP (Article X: Role of Demobilized GRP Military Personnel).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat’s left of the AFP in the event CASER is implemented are the Engineering Brigades tasked to undertake civil works and infrastructure for industrial development,\u201d\u00a0said Parlade, who is also AFP Deputy Chief of Staff for Civil-MIlitary Operations.<\/p>\n

He added that on Page 74 of CASER\u2019s Article IX — Role of the NPA and the Progressive and Revolutionary Mass Organizations, it is the NPA that will not be demobilized.<\/p>\n

Treachery<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTreachery has always been in the DNA of these terrorist CPP \u2013 NPA (New People\u2019s Army) \u2013 NDF (National Democratic Front), especially Sison, which brings us to the issue on peace talks and CASER, one of the substantive agenda that the NDFP has been pushing, along with Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG), CAPCR, and Comprehensive Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities and Disposition of Forces (CACHDF),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said on the eve of the termination of the ceasefire, he can almost predict that the terrorist group CPP NPA will most likely attack again AFP and Philippine National Police (PNP) personnel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey did this in Iloilo and Camarines Norte nine hours after the declaration on Dec. 23,\u201d he said referring to the NPA attacks on a police patrol in Tubungan, Iloilo., and on troopers of the Army\u2019s 92nd Division Reconnaissance Company in Labo town, Camarines on the first day of the holiday ceasefire.<\/p>\n

The NPA attacks left at least two policemen wounded in the improvised explosive device (IED) ambush in Iloilo while a soldier was killed and six others were injured in Camarines Norte.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are almost certain as a next move that the NDFP will again demand the extension of the Ceasefire, as a confidence-building initiative, despite the fact that the security sector has never felt confident with the truce. What\u2019s with the pattern of treacherous attacks these terrorists commit during the truce,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The once pale, emaciated, and very weak red fighters of Joma, he said, has regained some strength because of the holiday truce.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s deal with those issues first and then maybe we can convince the people that these peace talks are worth a try,\u201d Parlade added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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