It pains us to see that at the same time we are mourning the loss of lives due to armed struggle in our country, our brothers in Spain are rejoicing at the end of violence in theirs. We urge our brothers in the NDF and MILF to end decades of armed struggle and open channels that will allow us to enjoy lasting peace in our country.
The end of violence in Spain gives us hope, and we believe we have more cause to be united as Filipinos and more reason to work harder for peace. This generation and its leaders must exhaust all efforts to achieve lasting peace.
With the genuine desire of President Aquino to reach out and have a dialogue with the NDF and MILF, now more than ever our goal of finally achieving peace is within reach. We hope that all parties exert extra effort to make this happen now, within our lifetime. Forty years is too long to be at war with our own brothers. Too many lives have been lost, and too much precious resources have been wasted in addressing this conflict. The time to end all this is now.
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Declare ceasefire and resume talks
We welcome the release of Surigao Mayor Henry Dano and his two military aides and the four jail guards by the New People’s Army.
This release increases our confidence in the peace process. In the final analysis, we all want lasting peace to become a reality in our country. Now is the time for both panels to sit down and declare a truce and resume peace talks.
Talking peace is not at all possible when we are shooting at one another. A ceasefire is a must.
We all look forward to the day when we finally have lasting peace. We must continue to strive for it and achieve it in our lifetime.
As a former student activist during the Marcos dictatorship, I am well aware of the cause the NDFP espouses. When the roots of armed conflict are addressed by a government committed to genuine change then the path to peace must be given a chance to succeed.
We urge the GPH and the NDF to immediately declare a ceasefire as a means to give way to formal talks. A new generation of Filipinos deserves to see lasting peace achieved in our lifetime. We look to the future wherein the guns of war are silenced forever. The peace process must pave the way for economic growth and development in the rural areas. Only when we succeed in developing our rural areas--creating gainful employment for our people in the countryside in an atmosphere of unity and peace--can we truly progress as a nation.
This release increases our confidence in the peace process. In the final analysis, we all want lasting peace to become a reality in our country. Now is the time for both panels to sit down and declare a truce and resume peace talks.
Talking peace is not at all possible when we are shooting at one another. A ceasefire is a must.
We all look forward to the day when we finally have lasting peace. We must continue to strive for it and achieve it in our lifetime.
As a former student activist during the Marcos dictatorship, I am well aware of the cause the NDFP espouses. When the roots of armed conflict are addressed by a government committed to genuine change then the path to peace must be given a chance to succeed.
We urge the GPH and the NDF to immediately declare a ceasefire as a means to give way to formal talks. A new generation of Filipinos deserves to see lasting peace achieved in our lifetime. We look to the future wherein the guns of war are silenced forever. The peace process must pave the way for economic growth and development in the rural areas. Only when we succeed in developing our rural areas--creating gainful employment for our people in the countryside in an atmosphere of unity and peace--can we truly progress as a nation.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Resumption of peace talks
On July 7, Thursday, we visited National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) headquarters in Utrecht, the Netherlands in the hope that the kinks that have led to the postponement of the talks could be ironed out and that the peace talks could proceed.
Nagkaroon ng aberya so we took the initiative to go there after conferring with our government representatives and presented our proposals for solving socio-economic and political problems to NDFP Negotiating Panel Chairperson Luis Jalandoni and NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison.
No progressive nation became prosperous while facing armed conflict. The peace initiatives during the Ramos presidency created a window of opportunity for development in Mindanao. We would not have developed cities such as General Santos, Cagayan De Oro, and Davao City if it weren’t for this ceasefire agreement.
My relationship with the NDF has been decades long because I was a student activist during the Marcos dictatorship and thus ‘fully understands the causes they are fighting for.’
Started in 1969, the Communist Party of the Philippines-NDF-NPA insurgency is considered as one of the longest running insurgencies in existence.
Personally I want my children to see peace in our country happen in our lifetime. It took the Irish Republican Army (IRA) 90 years from the time of its creation to agree to peaceful means of resolving the armed conflict in Northern Ireland. We should be able to follow their lead and forge our own historic date of peace and unity sometime in the near future.
The government has been talking peace with the NDF since the restoration of democracy in 1986. That’s 25 years of on and off peace negotiations. Surely we can do better than this? If this is all we can offer, then it’s a shame. Our efforts thus and the results we have achieved are unacceptable. We deserve more. Our people, our children, deserve better, and the Aquino government has the unique and golden opportunity to finally make things right and forge a comprehensive peace settlement with the CPP-NPA-NDF.
Nagkaroon ng aberya so we took the initiative to go there after conferring with our government representatives and presented our proposals for solving socio-economic and political problems to NDFP Negotiating Panel Chairperson Luis Jalandoni and NDFP Chief Political Consultant Prof. Jose Maria Sison.
No progressive nation became prosperous while facing armed conflict. The peace initiatives during the Ramos presidency created a window of opportunity for development in Mindanao. We would not have developed cities such as General Santos, Cagayan De Oro, and Davao City if it weren’t for this ceasefire agreement.
My relationship with the NDF has been decades long because I was a student activist during the Marcos dictatorship and thus ‘fully understands the causes they are fighting for.’
Started in 1969, the Communist Party of the Philippines-NDF-NPA insurgency is considered as one of the longest running insurgencies in existence.
Personally I want my children to see peace in our country happen in our lifetime. It took the Irish Republican Army (IRA) 90 years from the time of its creation to agree to peaceful means of resolving the armed conflict in Northern Ireland. We should be able to follow their lead and forge our own historic date of peace and unity sometime in the near future.
The government has been talking peace with the NDF since the restoration of democracy in 1986. That’s 25 years of on and off peace negotiations. Surely we can do better than this? If this is all we can offer, then it’s a shame. Our efforts thus and the results we have achieved are unacceptable. We deserve more. Our people, our children, deserve better, and the Aquino government has the unique and golden opportunity to finally make things right and forge a comprehensive peace settlement with the CPP-NPA-NDF.
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