CPP: CPP says Aquino's pessimism in peace talks with NDFP is a self-fulfilling prophecy

From the CPP Website (Oct 18): CPP says Aquino's pessimism in peace talks with NDFP is a self-fulfilling prophecy

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) chided Benigno Aquino’s pessimism over the prospects of peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) as a “self-fulfilling prophecy.” The Aquino regime “has been actively blocking peace negotiations from Day 1 of its term,” said the CPP. “Aquino himself gave the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) marching orders to ‘decimate the NPA’ in three years, to dramatize his regime’s militarist approach in resolving the raging armed conflict,” pointed out the CPP. “This has set the framework of the Aquino regime’s Oplan Bayanihan under which the AFP has been intensifying its war of suppression especially in the countryside and causing grave abuses of human rights and widespread terror.” “In his very first address before the reactionary congress, Aquino insisted that the revolutionary forces enter a ceasefire as precondition for peace negotiations, claiming that without it, discussions cannot move forward. Aquino obscures the fact that no ceasefire preceded negotiations on every major agreement forged between the NDFP and the GPH over the past twenty years....”

http://www.philippinerevolution.net/statements/cpp-says-aquino-s-pessimism-in-peace-talks-with-ndfp-is-a-self-fulfilling-prophecy