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(Eagle News) — Naniniwala si GRP Peace Panel Chief at Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello na hindi maiiwasan na magduda ang publiko sa sinseridad ng CPP-NPA-NDF sa usaping pangkapayapaan. Ito’y kasunod na naman ng ginawang pag-atake ng rebeldeng grupo sa isang police station sa Quirino at panununog sa pasilidad ng Lapanday Plantation sa Davao City. Ayon kay Bello, dapat magpakita ng lubos na sinseridad ang rebeldeng grupo para makuha ang suporta ng sambayanan sa peace talk. […]
NOORDWIJK AAN ZEE, Netherlands (AFP) — Philippine government officials Monday launched a new round of talks with communist rebels aiming to hammer out an interim ceasefire in moves to end one of the world’s longest insurgencies. The talks, which got under way in The Netherlands, are due to last until Friday and are the fourth round between the National Democratic Front and Manila. “We welcome the openness of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines […]
President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday, April 2, visited the wounded-in-action soldiers (WIA) at the Camp Evangelista Station Hospital (CESH) in the 4th Infantry Division (4ID) of Camp BGen. Edilberto Evangelista, Cagayan de Oro City. He personally awarded the Wounded Personnel Medal to the WIA soldiers confined at the CESH.
(Eagle News) – The fourth round of formal peace talks opened on Monday, April 3, in the Hague, The Netherlands where both panels from the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines spoke positively of having a bilateral ceasefire agreement signed soon. No less than the NDFP chief consultant, Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for “being gracious” in allowing the members […]
(Eagle News) — Only a court of law can mete out any form of penalty against anyone violating the laws of the country. This was the response of Senator Panfilo Lacson to a statement over the weekend from the National Democratic Front ordering the arrest of President Benigno Aquino III over the violent dispersal of farmers in Kidapawan on April 1, last year. Aside from Aquino, also ordered arrested were Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North […]
MANILA, March 13 – Malacanang official said the Palace welcomes the announcement on the resumption of formal peace talks between the Philippine Government and the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/National Democratic Front (CPP/NPA/NDF). In a statement, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella said “The Palace welcomes the announcement of Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza in Utrecht, The Netherlands, on the resumption of formal peace talks between the Philippine government and the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday directed the military and the police to “wage war” against the New People’s Army rebels after they killed four policemen who were not even combatants but were merely responding to a call to investigate a murder in the area. The President said there is no peace talks as of now. “Wala pang peace talks. It’s totally absent. So, in the meantime, I will also ask the […]
SAN ANDRES, Quezon (Eagle News) – Patay ang apat na katao mula sa hinihinalang miyembro ng National People’s Army matapos ang sagupaan sa miyembro ng 85th Infantry Battalion ng Philippine Army. Nangyari ang nasabing insidente bandang 4:00 ng hapon nitong Martes, March 7 sa Sitio Umagos, Brgy. Camflora, San Andres, Quezon. Sa inisyal na impormasyon apat ang napatay sa panig ng mga rebelde. Apat din na matataas na kalibre ng baril ang nakuha sa mga rebelde, isa […]
(Eagle News)- The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) has ordered its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA) to release the six “prisoners of war” whom the rebels are holding as a “positive gesture” that it wants to continue peace talks with the government. In a statement, the CPP said that it is open to negotiations for a bilateral ceasefire, recalling a previous pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte that all political prisoners could […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The leader of the Philippines’ communist insurgency has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to revive collapsed peace talks as his rebels launched new attacks. On Saturday, Duterte angrily scrapped talks with communist insurgents aimed at ending their decades-long conflict after both the government and the rebels called off unilateral ceasefires. “Even if the armed conflict between the armed forces of the two parties has resumed, peace negotiations can and must […]
(Eagle News) – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said the government is ready to go after and hunt down the New People’s Army rebels following President Duterte’s directive to scrap peace talks with communist leaders. Lorenzana clarified that there was no “all-out war” but normal military operations to be conducted against the NPA, the armed component of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), especially after their action of killing unarmed soldiers on February 1, […]
MANILA, Philippines (Eagle News) — Kailangang managot ang mga rebeldeng komunista na nasa likod ng pag-ambush at brutal na pagpatay sa mga sundalo. Ito ang inihayag ng mga senador, upang anila ay mabigyan ng hustisya ang pagkamatay ng mga sundalo. Samantala, suportado naman ng ilang kongresista ang pagkansela ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa napagkasunduang peace talks sa rebeldeng komunista na CPP-NPA-NDF. Ayon sa mga ito, sobra na ang naging pagbibigay ng pamahalaan sa mga rebeldeng komunista […]
