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Palace denies Duterte authorized MTRCB member to lead backchannel talks with Communist rebels

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Thursday, Jan. 17, denied the claim of  Movie and Television Review and Classification Board member Avelino Andal that he was asked by President Rodrigo Duterte to conduct backchannel talks with the Communist rebels. In a press conference, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said President Duterte himself had denied ever authorizing Andal for such. “Baka (Andal) misunderstood the conversation. I can’t blame him,” Panelo said. Earlier, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana denied Duterte had made […]

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MTRCB official says Duterte has ordered conduct of back-channel talks with Communist rebels

Palace says it has no information on the matter (Eagle News) — A member of the Movie Television Review and Classification Board said on Tuesday, Jan. 15, that President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the conduct of back-channel talks with Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison and other high-ranking Communist rebel-officials. Avelino Andal, former chief of the Philippine Coconut Authority, said President Duterte gave him the order last week. “Nagpaabot agad ako (ng) […]

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Lacson to DOJ: Follow up on court petition seeking to declare CPP, NPA as terrorists

(Eagle News)—–Senator Panfilo Lacson on Thursday, Jan. 3, urged the Department of Justice to follow up in court its petition seeking to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines and the New People’s Army as terrorists. Lacson, who was referring to the petition filed by the DOJ before the Manila Regional Trial Court in March, issued the statement after CPP founder Jose Maria Sison said the Communists “principal work” this 2019 was the ouster of […]

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Lorenzana calls Sison an “armchair general”

(Eagle News)—The armchair general. This was how Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana described on Friday, Dec. 28, Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison,  who he said has been giving out directions to Communist rebels in the country even while in exile in The Netherlands. According to Lorenzana, he had “more respect” for the Communist rebels on the ground “kahit nakakalaban namin sila” because they were the ones at the forefront. “Hindi na siya […]

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Palace to Sison: Wave the white flag before your health gives up on you

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Wednesday, Dec. 26, urged Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to “wave the white flag,” noting that the 50-year Communist insurgency has failed. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement on the day the CPP celebrates its 50th founding anniversary. “It’s for him to wave the white flag before his physique gives up on him,” Panelo said. According to Panelo, the  insurgency only resulted in “loss of lives […]

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Palace slams Sison: He is an “incorrigible rebel” whose long exile has put him “in constant hallucination”

(Eagle News)—The Palace on Wednesday, Dec. 26, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison, calling him an “incorrigible rebel” whose “long exile” has “dulled his senses, put him out of touch with reality and in constant hallucination.” Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo issued the statement on the CPP’s 50th founding anniversary, and after Sison, in a television interview, slammed Duterte and called him a “modern maniac in power.” According to Panelo, between Sison […]

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Sison: Duterte is the number 1 violator of human rights, not me

(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday, Dec. 25,  accused President Rodrigo Duterte anew of being a mass murderer, saying he is the “abominable no.1 violator of human rights.” In a statement posted on his Facebook page, Sison said it was Duterte who has “brazenly used his armed minions to commit mass murders and human rights violations.” Sison made the comment in response to Duterte’s claim it was the CPP […]

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Sison welcomes statement Duterte still keen on pursuing peace talks with Communist rebels

(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday, Dec. 18, welcomed Bong Go’s pronouncement President Rodrigo Duterte was still interested in pursuing peace talks with the Communist rebels. He said that if Go indeed “means what he says, he should advise Duterte to allow his negotiating panel to engage in informal talks to prepare for formal talks.” He said the peace talks should address the roots of the armed conflict. Sison […]

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Palace to Sison: Return to PHL and see President Duterte’s independent foreign policy at work

(Eagle News)–The Palace on Sunday, Dec. 9, urged Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to “stop his propaganda war,” and return to the Philippines instead. Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo made the statement after Sison criticized President Rodrigo Duterte’s foreign policy on the West Philippine Sea. “We urge Mr. Sison…to  see for himself the independent foreign policy course that the President has charted, including a cautious, pragmatic, and diplomatic stance on how to […]

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Communist rebels declare unilateral ceasefire for holidays

(Eagle News) — The Communist Party of the Philippines on Friday, Dec. 7, declared a unilateral ceasefire for the holidays. In a statement, the central committee of the CPP said the temporary ceasefire would take effect from 12:01 a.m. of December 24, 2018 to 11:59 p.m. of December 26, 2018; and from 12:01 a.m. of December 31, 2018 to 11:59 p.m. of January 1, 2019. “During the days covered by this temporary ceasefire declaration, all units […]

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Sison: Signing of MOU on PHL-China oil, gas development a “clear act of treason”

(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison said the signing of the memorandum of agreement on oil and gas development between the Philippines and China was a “clear act of treason.” “…(It is a) blatant betrayal of the sovereign rights and national patrimony of the Philippines and the Filipino people,” he said. For one, he said the MOU “waste basket” the international arbitral ruling that nullified China’s excessive claims in the South […]

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Two Palace officials to have informal meeting with NDFP’s Jalandoni, Agcaoili

(Eagle News)–Peace Secretary Jesus Dureza on Sunday, Nov. 18, said he may meet National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) negotiators Fidel Agcaoili and Luis Jalandoni in Manila soon. Apart from him, he said Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo was also tasked to meet with the NDFP negotiators in an “informal chat.” “I am now on my way to head the Philippine delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York so the planned meeting may […]

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