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BY JUN AGUIRRE
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Friday, January 6, 2017
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KALIBO, Aklan – The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) might withdraw from its indefinite ceasefire agreement with the government, a National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultant said.
Maria Concepcion “Concha” Araneta-Bocala accused the Duterte administration of committing “violations.”
“We are considering a withdrawal [from the] ceasefire,” Bocala told a news conference yesterday. “The violations of the Duterte administration include extrajudicial killings, non-release of around 400 political prisoners and the series of human rights violations.”
Bocala was in this capital town for the launching of the Aklan chapter of the nationwide peace network Kapayapaan.
But “while we are withdrawing from the ceasefire agreement, we are still open for peace talks,” she said. “It is a matter of fight, talk, fight, talk scheme.”
The plan was included in an 84-page proposition the NDFP will present during the third round of peace talks on Jan. 18 in Rome, Italy.
“The first two [rounds of] talks in Norway discussed the frameworks,” said Bocala. “In the third [round], we will discuss our proposition for economic and social reforms.”
The CPP has the NDFP as its political arm and the New People’s Army as armed wing.
In August 2016 the CPP entered into an indefinite ceasefire deal with the Philippine government to give way to peace talks.
“However, the CPP recorded 37 cases of extrajudicial killings, which involved environmental activists, peasants, among others,” said Bocala.
“We also received reports from poor people in the countryside that they are being blackmailed and harassed by the military,” she added./PN
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