LUCENA CITY –– A day after the communist rebels agreed to return to the peace negotiation table, rebel leader Jose Maria “Joma” Sison on Saturday declared that it would not happen if the government would insist on resuming it in the Philippines. “I went to the extent of saying that the NDFP had never closed the door to peace negotiations with the GRP under Duterte or any other president,” Sison said. “But within 24 hours after the Duterte offer, he and his sidekick [Hermogenes] Esperon put forward the precondition that the peace negotiations must be resumed in the Philippines,” Sison charged. 374 designating the CPP and NPA as “terrorist” and Executive Order No. 70 militarizing and making the government fascist, to mention only the most important anti-peace issuances of the tyrant Duterte.”/lzbRead NextLATEST STORIESMOST READ

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer December 07, 2019 09:22 UTC