Professor Sison's arrest, ransacking of NDF International Information Office and houses of Filipino Refugees spell death for the peace negotiations
National Democratic Front of the Philippines Monitoring Committee
Press Statement
29 August 2007
Professor Sison's arrest, ransacking of NDF International Information Office and houses of Filipino Refugees spell death for the peace negotiations
By Fidel V. Agcaoili
Chairman
On behalf the NDFP-Monitoring Committee, we condemn in the strongest
terms the arrest of Prof. Jose Maria Sison, Chief Political Consultant
of the NDFP Negotiating Panel, and the raids and ransacking of the NDF
International Information Office and the houses of Filipino refugees
by the Dutch police on the basis of trumped-up charges by the
Philippine government.
The actions of the Dutch authorities gravely violate the rights of
Prof. Sison and other Filipino refugees and do not in any way
contribute to the furtherance of the peace negotiations between the
Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National
Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
With the arrest of Prof. Sison based on false charges, Mrs. Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo has succeeded in extending her long fascist arms
abroad courtesy of the Dutch authorities.
It should be Mrs. Arroyo and her minions in the Cabinet Oversight
Committee on Internal Security who should instead be arrested for war
crimes under the principle of command responsibility for the
extrajudicial executions and enforced disappearances of more than 900
unarmed civilians in the implementation of Oplan Bantay Laya I and II.
Contrary to the claims of Mrs. Arroyo, the arrest of Prof. Sison and
the raids conducted are bound to terminate the ongoing peace
negotiations between the NDFP and the Arroyo government.
The NDFP Negotiating Panel will await instructions from the leadership
of the revolutionary movement in the Philippines on the fate of the
peace negotiations in light of the recent arrest of Prof. Sison.
The arrest of Prof. Sison will not stop the Filipino people from
advancing the struggle for national liberation and democracy and the
attainment of a just and lasting peace in the Philippines. They will
continue to intensify their resistance against the illegitimate,
unjust, corrupt and barbaric Arroyo regime.#
REFERENCE:
Ruth de Leon
Executive Director
NDFP International Information Office
Tel.: +31 30 2310431
Fax.: +31 84 7589930
Email: ndf@casema.nl
Website: http://www.ndfp.net; http://home.casema.nl/ndf
Email address: ndf@casema.nl
Telephone: 31-30-2310431
Fax: 31-84-7589930
Mailing address: Amsterdamsestraatweg 50, NL-3513 AG Utrecht, Netherlands
