CPP/NDF-Negotiating Panel: NDFP Negotiating Panel condemns Duterte regime for the brutal killing of NDFP peace consultants

Propaganda statement posted to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Website (Dec 2, 2020): NDFP Negotiating Panel condemns Duterte regime for the brutal killing of NDFP peace consultants

JULIET DE LIMA

INTERIM CHAIRPERSON

NEGOTIATING PANEL

NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC FRONT OF THE PHILIPPINES

DECEMBER 02, 2020

The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Negotiating Panel condemns in the strongest terms the fascist Duterte regime and his Philippine National Police for the brutal murder of two NDFP Peace Consultants, Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio on November 25, 2020.

Close to a battalion of troopers swooped on the residence of Magpantay and Topacio around 3 o’clock in the morning firing before entering and thn brutally killing the couple. The Duterte regime is guilty of fragrantly violating the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees (JASIG) of 1995 which guarantees all participants in the peace negotiations safety and immunity from detention, arrests, and murder.

The regime is also guilty of violating the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) of 1998.

Comrades Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio, both 69 years old, had retired and were convalescing in the past years. Both suffered from diabetes. Comrade Eugenia Magpantay recently suffered a stroke , which rendered her comatose for four days. Comrade Agaton Topacio was in pain for heart enlargement, knee injury, and frozen shoulder.

The police claim that the couple resisted arrest and were killed in a firefight. In their physical condition, they could not have handled the many weapons found on the scene, much less, engage in a firefight.

The execution of Magpantay and Topacio recalls the murders of NDFP consultants in the peace negotiations, Randall Echanis, Julius Giron and Randy Malayao.

The NDFP Negotiating Panel renders highest honors to Comrades Eugenia Magpantay and Agaton Topacio for their decades of service to the revolutionary movement and to the oppressed and exploited masses.

We convey our deepest condolences to their children and grandchildren, to their entire families, and the masses whom they loved and served.

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