Duterte needs the peace negotiations more than the revolutionary movement
Duterte has never been interested in serious peace negotiations with the NDFP in the first place
10 days from the March 15 start of the lockdown
Up to now the public money promised to make up for the loss of incomes of workers and odd jobbers from Duterte through mayors and barangays has not yet materialized
Duterte and Duque are criminally responsible for stalling donations, purchases and delivery of equipment for the fight against COVID-19
including testing kits for the benefit of the masses, ventilators and the gear for the personal protection of the frontline health workers
The lockdown has aggravated the Covid-19 problem
The lockdown has aggravated the Covid-19 problem by preventing testing and treatment of the sick and generating the hunger problem for millions of people who are prevented from earning a living
NDFP negotiating panel can recommend ceasefire to its principal in response to the call of UN secretary general for global ceasefire
The NDFP and the broad masses of the people themselves need to refrain from launching tactical offensives to gain more time and opportunity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to look after the health and over-all welfare of the people in both urban and rural areas
Unnecessary emergency powers and the huge appropriation will serve repression and corruption
the regime is quick to take advantage of the pandemic to grab more powers and more public money for its discretionary use
Why NDFP does not trust Duterte’s ceasefire declaration
The offensive operations of the AFP and PNP are continuing without any stop and include red-tagging, abductions and extrajudicial killings, compelling people to attend fake surrender meetings, staging fake encounters that kill and victimize ordinary peasants, bombing rural communities in certain regions and forcing the evacuation of the poor peasants and indigenous people and delivering the land and other natural resources to foreign and big comprador corporations.
The people, their mass organizations and benign institutions have to take care of themselves against a brutal regime
It is brutal for the Duterte regime to use the military and police to ban all forms of public transport, to mass up people at so many trunk lines and checkpoints just to check identification cards, mix up the healthy with possibly the unhealthy persons and order them to return home
GRP unilateral ceasefire declaration is premature, bereft of any basis for reciprocation by the NDFP
The ceasefire declaration by the GRP or the Duterte regime is premature, if not insincere and false.
COVID-19 at si Duterte
The Covid-19 is a kind of virus that causes illness that manifested itself in Wuhan, China in December 2019