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DND chief collapsing gov’t peace talks with Reds

DND chief collapsing gov’t peace talks with Reds
Atty. Cruz statement on the defeat of communist insurgents within 6 to 10 years, recycles ex-President Cory Aquino’s Total War Policy

A militant group supporting the peace talks between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) on Friday said Defense Secretary Atty. Avelino Cruz Jr. was recycling the “ Total War Policy” approach of former Philippine President Corazon Aquino to defeat the communist insurgency in the country.

In a press statement, the fisherfolk activist group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) stressed that the pronouncement of Defense Secretary Atty. Cruz that the Armed Forces of the Philippines would defeat the communist insurgents was an endorsement of the total war approach characterized by the escalation of unjust war and wanton violation of basic human rights and civil liberties.

“ Sec. Cruz merely laid down the political statement for the collapse of the peace negotiations and on the other hand, endorsed the all-out military offensives and left-and-right political assassination and persecution of activists identified with the mainstream or aboveground left, including other critics of the Macapagal-Arroyo administration and the military establishment”, says Pamalakaya information officer Gerry Albert Corpuz in a press statement.

Defense Secretary Cruz on Thursday said the communist insurgency will remain a national security threat for the next decade and the AFP needs six to l10 years to put an end to the 36-year old Maoist rebellion waged by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing the New People’s Army (NPA).

Corpuz said aside from laying the ground for another Total War policy.

“ Sec. Atty. Cruz is a poor student of history, a senseless political animal and a dogmatic follower of AFP’s Jurassic resolution to the armed conflict and ongoing civil war in the countryside.

He added that other internal security threats such as the Abu Sayyaf Group and the local operatives of the regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyah should have been licked by then.

"The AFP can defeat the CPP-NPA in six to 10 years," Cruz told the Manila Overseas Press Club Wednesday night.

"If we are going to be attuned to the 21st century, it is an unacceptable attitude that we will have the communist insurgency for another 30 years," he added.

Cruz said such timetable is consistent with the Philippine Defense Reform Program which his team at the DND has formulated.

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