By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
NDFP Chief Political Consultant

Brief presentation to press conference, in Utrecht, The Netherlands
14 November 2011

Let me state to you the remedies that have been used or can be used to overcome or solve 10 major obstacles or problems in the GPH-NDFP peace negotiations.

Let me refer quickly to every obstacle or problem and then state the remedy.

By NDFP Human Rights Monitoring Committee 

This pamphlet exposes in very concrete terms the blatant lies of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and its agencies, especially Task Force Usig (TFU), regarding the extrajudicial killings of unarmed civilians, as well as the malicious attempts to shift blame for a number of these criminal incidents to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), New People’s Army (NPA) and other revolutionary forces in the NDFP.

Prof. Philip Alston, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions has seen through the false claims of the GRP and the scheme to malign progressive legal activists as “communists” and “enemies of the state” and then to blame the CPP, NPA and other revolutionary forces. Before him, respected human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and religious institutions like the World Council of Churches and national councils of Christian churches in various countries have called the GRP and its agencies to task for command responsibility and have supported the evidence provided by the families of victims, the surviving victims, Philippine-based people’s organizations, religious institutions and human rights organizations like KARAPATAN and several international fact-finding missions.

    Read or download pamphlet, "A look into the complaints submitted to the Joint Monitoring Committee"...  

by LUIS G. JALANDONI
Chairperson, NDFP Negotiating Panel

On behalf of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, I convey our warm greetings to the organizers of this Inter-Faith Forum on “Defending Human Rights and Building Solidarity for a Just Peace”: the Pilgrims for Peace, Benedictines for Peace, St. Scholastica’s College Student Council, IFI Peacemakers, District Justice and Peace Commission – La Salle and Philippine Peace Center. We likewise greet all the other participants of this forum.

Our Negotiating Panel is glad and honored to participate in this important forum. We are happy to have this opportunity to present the NDFP view on the status of the GRP-NDFP peace talks and on the current outstanding issues. We also welcome your stress on the need to undertake concrete possible actions to promote the implementation of the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and to advance the protection of human rights in the face of the unabated flagrant violations of human rights by state forces. On this last point, I will make some concrete suggestions.

By Professor JOSE MARIA SISON
NDFP Chief Political Consultant

We wish to clarify the prejudicial questions that have arisen from the actions undertaken by the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the US government to intimidate and pressure the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), obstruct and possibly to scuttle the GRP-NDFP peace negotiations. At the same time, we wish to cite the proposals of the NDFP to resolve said prejudicial questions. We also anticipate that the Filipino people and revolutionary forces represented by the NDFP will raise the level of their resistance against intimidation and repression.

By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
NDFP Chief Political Consultant

Delivered at the International Peace Research Institute

Oslo, Norway
1 June 2005

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Greetings of solidarity!

Thank you for inviting me to speak at your well-known institution. I am delighted and honored by your invitation. I have long appreciated your work in peace research and in providing support to peace negotiations.

I wish to describe the socio-economic and political realities in the Philippines and proceed to a discussion of the need for peace negotiations between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP).