Adviser Luis Jalandoni of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines Saturday said the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng Bayani is a violation of the peace agreement on human rights and will be tackled in the NDFP peace negotiations with the Philippine government.
The NDFP has strongly opposed the burial of Marcos at the LNMB that portrayed him as a hero and model, Jalandoni said in an interview at a peace forum in Bacolod.Jalandoni, a former priest, was joined by his wife Coni Ledesma, a former nun, and currently a member of the NDFP negotiating panel in the peace talks with the government. They are both from Silay City, Negros Occidental.
The burial of Marcos at the LNMBis a violation of the agreement on human rights in the peace talks that states that it is the inherent and inalienable right of the people to fight against tyranny and oppression just as they fought against the martial law regime, he said.
He also said any move that allows the return of the Marcoses to power, led by the dictator's namesake, former Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, must be condemned by the Filipino people.
The Filipino people will be very strong in their resistance to such an attempt by the Marcos family and their supporters, he said.
The appropriate moves to take regarding Marcos' remains would be tackled during the talks, Jalandoni added.
On the extra judicial killings in the war against drugs, the NDFP position is that human rights should be respected, he said.
The ordinary drug users and small time pushers should be given due process and their human rights should be respected, Jalandoni said.
They actually need rehabilitation and should not to be subjected to killing, he added.
Jalandoni also said that when the Marcos issue is taken up during the peace talks, various ways in which some kind indemnification, reparation and recognition of the rights of the victims of martial law regime should also be tacked.
There should be recognition of the victims of martial law and their struggle, he said.
Jalandoni said he and his wife are in the Philippines for meetings with the NDFP negotiating panel and the Norwegian facilitator as part of the preparations for the third round of peace talks with the Duterte administration next month in Rome.
FOREIGN POLICY
Meanwhile, Jalandoni said an independent foreign policy should not only be from the US, but from other countries like China and Russia.
"It's good to have foreign relations with other countries like China and Russia, but we must make sure that we assert and protect our own independence and sovereignty, relationships have to be equal and beneficial to both sides," he said.
This is important for the Filipino people, its is important that we do not agree to unequal relationships that can be destructive for Filipino people, he added.
"While we develop fruitful relations with China we have to make sure that we do not give up our sovereign rights to the areas that really belong to the Philippines in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea," he said.
"We should make sure that we develop friendly relationships and agreements without giving up our inalienable rights to the areas that truly belong to the Filipino people," he added.
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