Rep. Carlos Zarate. INQUIRER FILE PHOTO
Bayan Muna Rep, Carlos Isagani Zarate is calling for a temporary suspension of fighting between the military
and the New People’s Army in Leyte and Samar provinces following the wide swath of devastation left by typhoon “Yolanda.” “I am calling on the Aquino administration and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) to respectively consider declaring suspensions of military operations and ceasefire in all the regions devastated by Yolanda to facilitate the unhampered relief, retrieval and clearing operations being conducted by government
, non-government organizations (NGOs) and other private relief groups,” said Zarate in a statement. The Leyte and Samar provinces are among the main bases of operation of leftist rebels in the country.
Zarate has likewise appealed to Bayan Muna members from the different regions to gather and send relief goods materials to the Yolanda-devastated areas.
“I am requesting our members to donate
and gather relief goods and send it to the nearest BAYAN MUNA or Makabayan Headquarters in their respective areas,” Zarate said. http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/524603/ph-govt-ndfp-urged-to-declare-ceasefire-in-typhoon-ravaged-areas
Bayan Muna (People First) is CPP-associated party-list political party and communist political front. All Zarate, a long-time CPP activist, needs to do is call his commie friends in Utrecht (Netherlands) and have them declare a unilateral ceasefire. But this sort of media grandstanding allows him to maintain the illusion that he and Bayan Muna act independently from the CPP/NDF.
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