Filipino Youth for Peace

By Filipino Youth for Peace

On the first anniversary of the US air strikes on Iraq, we young Filipino peace advocates remember how a year ago, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo tried all manners of deceit in an effort to convince us of the supposed justness of these attacks. She was the US spokesperson in the Philippines, mouthing the White House’s line that the war on Iraq was meant to eliminate erstwhile Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s supposed stockpile of weapons of mass destruction and thereby preempt his “terroristic” plots.
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NDFP announcement of the Resumption of Formal Peace Talks with the GRP
Negotiating Panel
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
January 13, 2004

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The lack of sincerity of the GRP in forging peace with the NDFP and the
continued foreign meddling are proving to be the main obstacles to the
peace process. The government remains bound to its archaic and
inflexible position that the only way to peace is for the NDFP to
surrender. What the GRP is asking is not peace but a prolonged war.

By Bobby Tuazon
Bulatlat.com
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The Joint Monitoring Committee (JMC) will receive complaints relating to
violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by forces
of both the GRP and NDFP and all relevant information, and to initiate
recommendations or requests for the implementation of the CARHRIHL.

By Alexander Martin Remollino

Bulatlat.com
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What the journalists who covered the joint CPP-CPDF press conference
saw were real human beings, real people who could have been their younger
brothers, their elder sisters, their classmates—normal people who could
have been living “normal” lives were it not for abnormal circumstances
rooted in an abnormal society.

By Alexander Martin Remollino

Bulatlat.com
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