Duterte to NPA: Do not destroy Communications/Energy Installations :: Declare perpetual ceasefire first

Do not destroy common many pays for it.

Umrao Singh umraoz.wordpress.com
Written for: Lars-Magnus Carlsson
www.thephilippinepride.com Saturday, 10 December 2016

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte was in high spirits when he assumed office and had immediately sent feelers and emissaries to all the warring factions who are waging long drawn-out battles with the state. The initial response by the NPA, NDF and the Communists in general was quite a revelation since it was garbed in deception and was bound to fail even before it started.
The communists played the tricks but could not give up the revenue earnings that they were extorting from the populace since ages; they were only leading on the President, the Norwegians and all else.
Their extortions in the shape of a revolutionary fund is a veritable, easy and unending source of income that comes along with a power that few people in the world would like to give up. The President was wrong in his assessment that they were patriotic fighters who had the interest of the common man at heart.
Their shenanigans did expose them to the public and other observers but their most potent weapon is the fear that they keep feeding on. Now, their activities have assumed such damaging proportions that the President himself had to speak out against the anti-national nature of their hostilities.
He exhorted the ultras to stop hampering the nation-building activities since they were destroying the properties of companies who did not wish to pay the Revolutionary Tax these bandits levied as per their whims and fancies. In so doing, they were damaging the communication facilities and energy installations that were so essential to the common man in his day to day activities.
He asked them not to burn down the facilities and trouble the people just because someone is not complying with your demands for the payment of the unjustifiable, illegal tax.
He was speaking while inaugurating the Pulanai hydroelectric power station in Bukidnon; this power plant would be providing 10.6 MW to the nation. The NPA is the armed branch of the CPP and is indulging in arson and looting when their demands are not met.
In turn, he stated, the companies do not pay from their pockets; they just pass on the extra burden due to the burning and looting to their customers who pay for your acts. Even if the companies pay you, they inflate the bills of the people to cover the money that is given to you.
There is a truce currently on between the two parties due to the peace talks though the demand of the NDF for the release of over 100 political detainees is rejected by the government.

For all other concessions, the government wants the NDF to declare a perpetual cease fire while a hunger strike by the activists in going on to force Duterte’s hand.

Concluded.

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