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Rejecting responsibility for their actions FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 11/05/2011

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Rejecting responsibility for their actions

FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
11/05/2011
Noynoy and his peace adviser are misusing taxpayers’ money to fund armed enemies of the state, claimed to be all done in the name of peace, apart from making certain that criminality will continue to be on the rise.

Why provide P31 million to the armed rebel group called the Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB), a urban communist hit squad that is, as a group, no longer in existence, and worse, it has been admitted by Peace Adviser Teresita Deles herself that this is the same armed group that makes up the private armies of politicians?

And yet, armed with that fact, Deles even says that the peace agreement Noynoy has entered into with these mercenaries does not call for the surrender of these ABB members’ firearms. Instead, they are to have their firearms licensed. Translated, Noynoy and Deles, apart from giving tax money in the tens of millions to this armed group that forms part of a politician’s private army, are giving these mercenaries the license to kill, for their mercenary and political purposes. Yet Deles claims that financing them will bring about peace when the opposite is true in that Deles has ensured “legitimacy” for these mercenaries who are also working for politicians as their private army and killings will still be around..... MORE

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URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111105com2.html

1 comment

Jesusa Bernardo said...

smokescreen lang ito, para mapagtakpan yung perang binigay at substate deal sa milf. kalokohan namang magbigay ng pera sa ABB na virtually non.existent as a communist group na pero hindi sa cpp-ndf-npa.

"And yet, armed with that fact, Deles even says that the peace agreement Noynoy has entered into with these mercenaries does not call for the surrender of these ABB members’ firearms. Instead, they are to have their firearms licensed. Translated, Noynoy and Deles, apart from giving tax money in the tens of millions to this armed group that forms part of a politician’s private army, are giving these mercenaries the license to kill, for their mercenary and political purposes. Yet Deles claims that financing them will bring about peace when the opposite is true in that Deles has ensured “legitimacy” for these mercenaries who are also working for politicians as their private army and killings will still be around."

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