Aquino regime is merely pretending for peace negotiations

PRESS STATEMENT

By FIDEL V. AGCAOILI

Spokesperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel

25 October 2011

**Aquino regime is merely pretending for peace negotiations**

Noynoy Aquino presents himself as interested in peace negotiations.
But in fact he is not. He is merely pretending to be for peace
negotiations in order to camouflage the extremely brutal military
operations of Oplan Bayanihan and his actual instructions to Ging
Deles, secretary of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the
Peace Process, to invalidate all previous agreements of the Government
of the Philippines (GPH/GRP) with the National Democratic Front of the
Philippines (NDFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

From Aquino through Deles to the negotiating panels headed by Alex
Padilla and Marvic Leonen, the instruction is to invalidate all
previous agreements with the NDFP and MILF by qualifying them to death
or outrightly shoving them aside with utter arrogance. The GPH is
hell-bent on using the peace negotiations as a mere psywar instrument
of Oplan Bayanihan and as a means of seeking the pacification and
capitulation of the revolutionary forces.

The blatant lack of progress in the GPH negotiations with both the
NDFP and MILF, and the escalation of military campaigns of suppression
by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National
Police (PNP) and various paramilitary forces are now resulting in the
intensified armed resistance of the NDFP and MILF and their respective
revolutionary armies. Thus, there is now a strong public clamor for
the resignation or removal of OPAPP secretary Deles.

The clearest proof that Aquino has instructed Deles from the very
beginning to work for the invalidation of previous agreements with the
NDFP and MILF and the sabotage of peace negotiations is that he
retains her in her position despite the strong public clamor for her
resignation or removal as a consequence of the rising level of the
armed conflict between the GPH and the revolutionary forces.

The Aquino regime is extremely hypocritical and treacherous. It claims
to be for peace negotiations but its obsession is to destroy all
previous agreements and scuttle the peace negotiations. It describes
Oplan Bayanihan as a peace and development plan but it is essentially
the same as Oplan Bantay Laya, a US designed counter-insurgency scheme
for the brutal suppression of the revolutionary forces of the people.