(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison on Saturday, March 23, said the termination of the peace talks actually benefits the “revolutionary forces” and the “Filipino people.”
In a statement, Sison said this was because “it drives the broad masses of the people and the organized revolutionary forces to wage all forms of resistance to isolate and intensify them in order to isolate and defeat the tyrannical US-Duterte regime.”
He said President Rodrigo Duterte was actually the “best recruiter” as he “has driven so many people to join the NPA by running a tyrannical, treasonous, mass murdering, plundering and inflation-generating regime.”
He said by terminating the peace talks, Duterte “compels the armed revolutionary movement to concentrate on intensifying the people’s war and cast away any illusion that this regime of terror and greed can negotiate social, economic and political reforms to address the roots of the armed conflict in order to achieve a just and lasting peace.”
According to Sison, Duterte was also “the best transport and supply officer when he sends his troops and police to attack the guerrilla fronts.”
He said when they “advance in superior force, the NPA retreats and gives the enemy an illusion of winning.”
“But when they camp and take over rough terrain,” Sison said “their strength is thinned out and they leave gaps between units and make small detachments and patrol teams, which are easy targets for the counteroffensives of the NPA.”
“Duterte’s scheme to destroy the NPA in Mindanao and then in Luzon and the Visayas has utterly failed,” he said.
“The Filipino people and the revolutionary forces led by the CPP have a lot to thank Duterte for,” he added.
Last week, Duterte announced the permanent termination of peace talks, saying Communist rebels can “maybe talk to the next President.”
This was after he dissolved the government panel that led the talks, citing a previous announcement in November 2017 that the negotiations had been cancelled.
Duterte then cancelled the talks following what he said were the atrocities of the Communist rebels that included the killing of a baby.
