NDF-Eastern Visayas propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines Website (Nov 3): NDF-EV condemns AFP’s tactic to “divide and conquer” through local peace talks
Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas, Spokesperson
NDFP Eastern Visayas (Region VIII)
3 November 2017
The National Democratic Front-Eastern Visayas today said the military is pushing for local peace talks as part of its counterrevolutionary campaign, Oplan Kapayapaan, and stressed the matter of peace is a national concern and must therefore be done at that level. “The NDF-EV clarifies the revolutionary forces in the region are not falling for the local peace talks being peddled by the Armed Forces of the Philippines,” said NDF-EV spokesperson Fr. Santiago “Ka Sanny” Salas. “We believe these so-called local peace talks in various provinces of Region 8 are crude schemes to sow confusion among the people and inveigle the revolutionary forces into surrendering. These also undermine efforts at national peace talks between the NDFP and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines.”
Fr. Salas slammed the 8th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army for making noise over “local peace talks” together with reactionary politicians. “In Leyte, the 78th IB bruited about local peace talks while in fact campaigning for the surrender of the New People’s Army. In Samar province, the military has also talked about local peace talks together with the provincial government. Meanwhile, there are reports the military in Northern Samar is making a scenario over local peace talks, too.”
The NDF-EV spokesperson said a just and lasting peace is not a local concern but for every peace-loving Filipino. “It is impossible to talk about peace merely at the local level because this will not address the root causes of the civil war and thus will fail at arriving at thoroughgoing social, economic and political reforms. The real intention of the military is spreading the notion that peace is merely the absence of war and urging the the revolutionary forces to surrender. They thus obscure the difference not only between an unjust war and a just war, but also between a just peace and the unjust peace of social injustice that cause people to take up arms in the first place. Only the most narrow-minded will believe in local peace talks while the magnanimous aspire for the greatest good for the greatest number. More and more, such parochialism exemplified by the US-Duterte regime itself will earn the people’s ire and face their broadest unity for a just and lasting peace.”
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