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Leftists lament: Dutch gov’t wasted 12 years of peace efforts with arrest of Joma based on trumped-up charges

The left-leaning fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Friday said the Dutch government wasted its’ 12 years of support by hosting the peace talks between the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) with their arrest of the NDFP Chief Political Consultant Jose Maria Sison based on fabricated murder charges.

“From 1992 to 2004, the Dutch government host to the NDFP-GRP peace talks. In fact 9 of the 17 major written agreements were signed by the negotiating panels of both parties in The Netherlands. But the peace negotiations is sabotaged with the arrest of Prof. Sison based on trumped-up charges,” Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap said in a press statement.

Hicap said the written agreements in connection with the peace talks signed in The Netherlands were: The Joint Hague Declaration (Sept.1, 1992), The Breukelen Joint Statement (June 14, 1994), the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (Feb.24, 1995), the Joint Agreement on the Ground Rules of the Formal Meetings Between the GRP and the NDPF panels (Feb.26, 1995), the Agreement on Additional Implementing Rules Pertaining to the Documents of Identification (June 26, 1996), the Supplemental Agreement to the Joint Agreement on the Formation, Sequence and Operationalization of the Reciprocal Working Committees (March 18, 1997), the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (March 16, 1998), the agreement on the Additional Implementing Rules on JASIG pertaining to the Security of Personnel and Consultations in Furtherance of Peace Negotiations ( March 16, 1998), the Joint Agreement in Support of Socioeconomic Projects of Private Development Organizations and Institutes (March 16, 1998) and the Joint Statement on the Resumption of Peace Talks (March 9, 2001).

The other agreements were the Joint Agreement on the Formation, Sequence and Operationalization of the Reciprocal Working Committees of the GRP and the NDFP Negotiating Panels (June 26, 1995), the Oslo Joint Communiqué (April 30, 2001), the Oslo Joint Statement (Feb.14, 2004), the Second Oslo Joint Statement (April 3, 2004) and the Partial Supplemental Guidelines for the Joint Monitoring Committee (June 25, 2004).

Pamalakaya’s Hicap said the Dutch government, as host providing “neutral venue” to the peace talks by political orientation is politically obliged to protect the NDFP chief political consultant from any form of political harassment and persecution by the Dutch government and the GRP.

But Pamalakaya expressed a high level of optimism that the embattled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) will overcome the challenge on what it called the Dutch-RP conspiracy to politically persecute Prof. Sison.

“The political offensive undertaken by the government of The Netherlands in conspiracy with the terrorist government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against Prof. Sison would soon backfire on them. That’s the law of truth and justice,” the fisherfolk group said.

Pamalakaya added: “The political animals who concocted trumped-up charges against Sison are jumping like chimpanzees. But soon they would realize that what they did was politically costly and morally embarrassing to them. At this point, the terrorist government to terrorist government pact to persecute and incarcerate Sison has been exposed to the Filipino public and the international community.”

The group said President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales who hailed the arrest of Sison as a giant step toward peace and victory for justice and rule of law will soon find themselves as objects of global condemnation, with the Dutch government drawing flaks for conniving with the criminal regime of Mrs. Arroyo over the immoral, illegal and highly detestable arrest of Sison based on fake charges.

Pamalakaya said the Dutch and the Manila governments until now can’t accept the fact that they lost their case in the European Court of First Instance last month, referring the decision of the European court to delist the former CPP chair from terrorist listing and the unfreezing of his assets in The Netherlands, previously frozen by the Dutch government. #

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