PNoy 'actively blocking' peace deal with NDFP — CPP

From GMANews (Oct 18): PNoy 'actively blocking' peace deal with NDFP — CPP

President Benigno Aquino III has been “actively blocking” a peace agreement between the government and the communist-led National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) said in a statement Thursday. The statement was released a day after Aquino expressed pessimism about peace talks between the government and the NDFP, the political wing of the CPP. The CPP listed several factors, such as the government’s counter-insurgency movement and the arrests and detention of NDFP consultants, in stating their case. "Aquino's pessimism about the prospects of NDFP-GPH talks is just a self-fulfilling prophecy,” the CPP said, adding Aquino is not serious in conducting “profound dialogue to address the roots of the armed conflict....”  The CPP also said the Aquino administration violated ceasefire agreements in the past, such as in 2010 when the government arrested NDF consultant Pedro Codaste, and later on Tirso Alcantara, Alan Jazmines, Renante Gamara and Jaime Soledad. The CPP also said the government refuses to release “at least a dozen” other consultants, and that Aquino has not done anything about the disappearances of several NDF consultants....

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