NPA dares Duterte: Prove yourself a patriot, end US-PH military pacts

LUCENA CITY –– The national spokesman of the communist New People’s Army (NPA) dared President Duterte to make good his stand and terminate all one-sided treaties with the United States.

Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos, spokesman of the NPA national operations command, said in an online interview with the Inquirer, that once President Duterte ends all military treaties with the US government, there would be no more obstacle for the communist and the Philippine government to sit down and discuss how to solve the problems of the Filipino people in a peace talk.

Madlos expressed confidence that when the President ends all military pacts with the US, it would hasten the victory of the communist insurgents against the government.

“Because he will have no more US imperialist supporters,” the rebel said.

However, Madlos himself expressed doubts that Mr. Duterte or any other president would have the courage to abrogate all military pacts with the American government.

“They are all puppets of US imperialism,” Madlos charged.

He accused Duterte of peddling lies and deceit with his stance against the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the US.

Madlos expected that another form of the military treaty would replace the VFA once it is finally abrogated.

“I’m sure there will be a new treaty, there will be a renegotiation and the result will still be in favor of US imperialist,” he stressed./lzb