Monday, July 15, 2013

Gph-NDFP : Political prisoner decries unrespected agreement







According to Ramon Patriaca’s statement “the government signed an agreement with the NDF for the review and the release some of the political detainees but failed to do so.


Patriaca is one of the detained National Democratic Front consultants has started an 12-day hunger strike to protest alleged failure of the Aquino government to release some of the political detainees in the country.


He said further that "No review of the court cases of political prisoners was ever conducted.  Instead, the illegal arrest, torture and detention of social activists and suspected revolutionaries were intensified, such that the number of political prisoners nationwide has almost doubled now to more than 400. Detained NDF consultants were not released, and their ranks increased, as the Aquino government pursues its counter-revolutionary Oplan Bayanihan with more vigor," 


The peacetalks between the GPH and NDFP has been stalled several times due to GPH continued lack of respects to agreements. The Philippine government forces has been accused of severe human rights violation by groups, inspite of AFP’s denials and statements to the contrary.






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