General Reyes is sabotaging and scuttling the GRP-
NDFP peace negotiations 

By Jose Maria Sison 

National Democratic Front of the Philippines Chief 
Political Consultant

4 November 2001 --General Angelo Reyes is hell-
bent on sabotaging and scuttling the GRP-NDFP 
[Government of the Republic of the Philippines-
National Democratic Front of the Philippines] 
peace negotiations. Since his assumption of office 
as secretary of national defense, he has escalated 
brutal military campaigns of suppression against 
the revolutionary forces and the people. These 
campaigns have violated the Geneva Conventions and 
the GRP-NDFP Comprehensive Agreement on Respect 
for Human Rights and International Humanitarian 
Law. 

The violations of human rights and 
international humanitarian law by the Armed Forces 
of the Philippines and the Philippine National 
Police include torture and murder of civilians 
suspected of being connected with the 
revolutionary movement as well as fighters of the 
[Maoist-led] New People's Army who are hors de 
combat. And yet General Reyes has the temerity to 
claim that the NPA is one-sidedly launching 
offensive actions against the AFP and the PNP and 
to call for ending the GRP-NDFP peace 
negotiations. General Reyes is scandalously trying 
to show himself off as one who is more powerful 
than Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo [the President 
of the Philippines] and as one who stands above 
her with regard to the peace negotiations. 

He is deliberately trying to sabotage and scuttle the 
peace negotiations in order to make Macapagal-
Arroyo a failure in this regard, destroy her 
chances of reelection in 2004 and pave the way for 
his own political ascension ala General Ramos. The 
NDFP is ready to deal with every 
counterrevolutionary action of General Reyes.  If 
he wants all-out war and no peace negotiations, 
the revolutionary forces and the people are in a 
position to intensify the new democratic 
revolution through people's war. Under the 
Macapagal-Arroyo regime, the ruling system has 
become far more rotten than under the Estrada 
regime when General Reyes collaborated with 
Estrada in undertaking a self-defeating all-out 
war policy against both the NDFP and the MILF 
[Moro Islamic Liberation Front]. 

The current 
regime is far weaker than ever before, especially 
because of the unprecedented crisis of the world 
capitalist system, the growing political and 
social turbulence and the outbreak of the ongoing 
imperialist war of aggression in Afghanistan.