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Resumption of peace talks in peril due to killings

Resumption of peace talks in peril due to killings
of leftist activists, says Pamalakaya

The resumption of the peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the communist led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) is in peril due to killings of aboveground leftist leaders, members and advocates by alleged assassins from the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

“ The Manila government is pushing the NDFP to withdraw from the peace talks with this US-backed Malacañang-AFP campaign to assassinate leaders, supporters and allies of the mainstream Leftist movement”, said Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap in a press statement.

Hicap said peaceniks, civil libertarians and human rights advocates should condemn the killings of political activists and the conscious act of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration to sabotage its peace talks with the NDFP through left and right killings and abductions of leftist activists.

The scheduled resumption of the peace talks between the GRP and the NDFP was postponed last year after NDFP negotiators accused the Macapagal-Arroyo government of negotiating in bad faith and over disagreements on the terrorist listing.

A total of 18 activists, all aboveground leftist leaders identified with militant groups like Bayan Muna, Anakpawis, Bayan, Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), Pamalakaya and leaders and supporters of striking workers in Hacienda Luisita were killed in the first quarter of 2005.

The latest victim of state and military sponsored terrorism was 66 year old Victor “ Tatang Ben” Concepcion, peasant leader and Anakpawis coordinator in Mexico, Pampanga ,while five more activists in Central Luzon are still missing and believed to be abducted by military operational units under the Northern Luzon Command or Nolcom.

“ President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and military mafia in Malacañang are working double time to collapse the peace talks by scoring this second wave of brutal attacks and political assassinations on leftist activists aim at pushing the NDFP to unilaterally end the peace talks so the government can go all-out in terrorizing not only the Left but as well critics of the present dispensation”, Hicap added.

Pamalakaya said the “ political resurrection” of Norberto Gonzales as National Security Adviser and former defense Secretary Angelo Reyes as chief of the Interior and Local Government were indications that Malacañang and the AFP are all set to collapse the talks between the GRP and the NDFP and carry out the second wave of political attacks against leaders, members and advocates of left-leaning cause-oriented groups.

“ NSA Gonzales, Sec. Reyes, Nolcom chief Lt. Gen. Romeo Dominguez, AFP chief of Staff Gen. Efren Abu and Brig. Gen. Jovito Palparan are President Arroyo’s appointed key persons in carrying out the open fascist attack against left-leaning activists. These bad guys also work as prime saboteurs of the peace negotiations”, Pamalakaya added.

The first wave of political assaults and assassinations against the mainstream left was carried between the period of 2002 and 2004 particularly in Mindoro island in Southern Tagalog where 49 Bayan Muna activists were reportedly killed by military death squads allegedly under the command of the controversial Palparan, then head of the 204th Brigade of the Philippine Army in Mindoro province. #

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