CPP: 3-year deadline to crush local Maoist-insurgents will fail

LUCENA CITY – Exiled top communist leader Jose Maria Sison said the military’s new timeline to crush the Maoist-inspired insurgents in the next three years was bound to fail.

“The scheme will surely fail from day to day, week to week, month to month and from year to year as the NPA (New People’s Army) will intensify tactical offensives and mass work,” Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder, said in a statement from Utrecht in the Netherlands on Wednesday.

He sneered at the capability of the government forces to defeat the revolutionary movement even with its new extended deadline.

“The same military and police of the same exploiting classes cannot accomplish in 3 years what they failed to accomplish in 50 years,” Sison said.

Last month, the CPP celebrated its 50th founding anniversary. All Duterte’s predecessors from Ferdinand Marcos to Noynoy Aquino have vowed to wipe out the communist insurgents during their respective administrations but they failed.

In a separate statement, the CPP also scoffed at the new government deadline to defeat the NPA, its armed wing.

“As the CPP predicted in a previous statement, the Duterte regime and its armed forces once again moved its impossible deadline of ending the armed struggle being waged by the NPA,” the CPP said.

The insurgents said that even with the additional three years, Duterte and the military “will surely be frustrated in their aim of crushing the NPA.”

“There is a rising tempo of tactical offensives (by the NPA) since the last quarter of 2018,” the CPP said.

It added: “The NPA is ever capable, determined and confident of attaining unprecedented strength in the coming years.”/lzb