Simon "Ka Filiw" Naogsan
Spokesperson, Cordillera Peoples' Democratic Front
The Arroyo regime's total war against the Bangsamoro people exposes the duplicity and insincerity of the reactionary government's negotiators. It proves once again the very dirty tricks that the Arroyo regime is capable of doing. It uses the peace talks not with the end in view of recognizing the people's legitimate demands but to force belligerent forces to lay down their arms and submit to the current dispensation, and to use federalism as a pretext for charter change and thus extend Arroyo's reign beyond 2010. The Arroyo regime will never truly recognize the right of national minorities to self-determination.
