President Arroyo Escalates Brutal Campaigns of Suppression and Closes Peace-Negotiations Door |
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Columns - Dissenting Opinion | |||
Friday, 22 August 2008 09:52 | |||
In line with her brutal policy of suppressing the revolutionary forces of the
people, President Gloria M. Arroyo (PGMA) has apparently closed the door to
peace negotiations by declaring that she would negotiate with “communities”
rather than with the armed-revolutionary movements like the National Democratic
Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF),
unless they first surrender and agree to be subjected to “disarmament,
demobilization and rehabilitation” under the terms of the continuing system of
oppression and exploitation. PGMA misses the whole point about the peace negotiations as a mutually agreed process for the conflicting parties to address the roots of the armed conflict and work out agreements on social, economic and political reforms in order to realize a just-and-lasting peace. She is excessively obsessed with the vain wish to destroy or debilitate the armed-revolutionary movements through all-out military force. This is complemented by her notion that she can use sham negotiations to trick these movements to capitulate or to paralyze them with indefinite informal talks and ceasefire.
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