Counterinsurgency has priority over peace talks

Counterinsurgency has priority over peace talks

By Satur C. Ocampo

Eight months have passed since the auspicious resumption by the Aquino government of peace talks with the National Democratic Front that Gloria Arroyo had suspended in 2005.

But now the talks are stalled again, despite last February’s reaffirmation by the two sides of 12 previously signed accords and agreement to accelerate within 18 months the pace of negotiations on the remaining topics of the agenda.

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