Reds on Moro framework agreement: We won’t be stampeded into half-baked peace

From InterAksyon (Oct 14): Reds on Moro framework agreement: We won’t be stampeded into half-baked peace

The government cannot use the draft framework agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to force the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) to go back to the negotiating table in the absence of clear guarantees, chief National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni said Sunday. “The propaganda of the GPH (Government of the Philippines) on the signing of this Framework next week is to pressure the NDFP to agree on a ceasefire and resume formal GPH-NDFP peace negotiations,” Jalandoni said in a statement released by the CPP Bureau. First, the government must comply with basic binding GRP/GPH bilateral agreements such as the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL), Jalandoni said. “The JASIG requires the GPH to release 13 NDFP Consultants in GPH prisons. The CARHRIHL requires the release of political prisoners who have been charged, detained or convicted for common crimes in violation of the Hernandez political offense doctrine. There are some 385 political prisoners, 107 of them arrested and detained under the current Aquino regime,” Jalandoni said....

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