Communist leader Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday countered several points in President Rodrigo Duterte's State of the Nation Address (SONA).
In a statement, Sison said "as a whole," Duterte's third SONA "shows no remorse for his glaring nonfulfilment of electoral promises and his gross aggravation of the problems that afflict the people."
On the President's tirade against human rights advocates and vow to continue his bloody war on drugs, Sison said Duterte "promotes the worst of criminality by turning police officers into kidnappers and murderers and corrupting them with rewards of cash and promotions in rank."
The exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines also questioned Duterte's seriousness in going after corrupt officials, noting his ties with the "Marcoses, Arroyos and Estradas," which he described as the "biggest plunderers."
Though Duterte bragged in his SONA about firing corrupt officials, Sison said these officials "are reassigned to other lucrative positions."
"His friends have been caught stealing public funds but mostly they go scotfree and when removed from office they are reassigned to other lucrative positions," he said.
Sison also blamed Duterte for the destruction of Marawi City, saying his refusal to negotiate with the Maute and Abu Sayyaf members as supposedly advised by the "Sultan and leading families of the city" led to the bloodshed.
He also accused Duterte of using the Marawi siege as springboard to put the entire Mindanao under martial law "in order to attack other Bangsamoro, Lumad and Christian communities and grab the land for foreign and oligarchic interests in mining, plantations and logging."
"Now, he makes a new false promise to fulfill the promise of Mindanao with public funds which have not at all flowed for the urgent and adequate reconstruction and rehabilitation of Marawi City," Sison said.
Sison also accused Duterte of "traitorously selling out the sovereign rights of the Philippines over the West Philippine Sea to China and plunging the Philippines into a debt trap in connection with overpriced infrastructure projects."
"He has not dared to file a diplomatic protest against the Chinese encroachment on and militarization of the West Philippine Sea with the use of artificial islands," he said.
Sison also noted that Duterte's SONA did not say much about solving the problems of underdevelopment, mass poverty, unemployment, soaring prices of basic commodities and services.
Instead, he said Duterte "merely repeats a series of generalized promises."
Sison also noted that Duterte did not mention Proclamation 360 that terminated the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in November last year.
He said this shows that Duterte "does not want to address the roots of the armed conflict through comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms in order to lay the basis for a just and lasting peace. "
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/661578/joma-trashes-duterte-s-3rd-sona/story/
On the President's tirade against human rights advocates and vow to continue his bloody war on drugs, Sison said Duterte "promotes the worst of criminality by turning police officers into kidnappers and murderers and corrupting them with rewards of cash and promotions in rank."
The exiled founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines also questioned Duterte's seriousness in going after corrupt officials, noting his ties with the "Marcoses, Arroyos and Estradas," which he described as the "biggest plunderers."
Though Duterte bragged in his SONA about firing corrupt officials, Sison said these officials "are reassigned to other lucrative positions."
"His friends have been caught stealing public funds but mostly they go scotfree and when removed from office they are reassigned to other lucrative positions," he said.
Sison also blamed Duterte for the destruction of Marawi City, saying his refusal to negotiate with the Maute and Abu Sayyaf members as supposedly advised by the "Sultan and leading families of the city" led to the bloodshed.
He also accused Duterte of using the Marawi siege as springboard to put the entire Mindanao under martial law "in order to attack other Bangsamoro, Lumad and Christian communities and grab the land for foreign and oligarchic interests in mining, plantations and logging."
"Now, he makes a new false promise to fulfill the promise of Mindanao with public funds which have not at all flowed for the urgent and adequate reconstruction and rehabilitation of Marawi City," Sison said.
Sison also accused Duterte of "traitorously selling out the sovereign rights of the Philippines over the West Philippine Sea to China and plunging the Philippines into a debt trap in connection with overpriced infrastructure projects."
"He has not dared to file a diplomatic protest against the Chinese encroachment on and militarization of the West Philippine Sea with the use of artificial islands," he said.
Sison also noted that Duterte's SONA did not say much about solving the problems of underdevelopment, mass poverty, unemployment, soaring prices of basic commodities and services.
Instead, he said Duterte "merely repeats a series of generalized promises."
Sison also noted that Duterte did not mention Proclamation 360 that terminated the peace negotiations with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines in November last year.
He said this shows that Duterte "does not want to address the roots of the armed conflict through comprehensive agreements on social, economic and political reforms in order to lay the basis for a just and lasting peace. "
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/661578/joma-trashes-duterte-s-3rd-sona/story/
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