Duterte’s invitation to come home a sham — Joma Sison

MANILA, Philippines — The National Democratic Front has described President Duterte’s invitation for NDF chief political consultant Jose Ma. Sison to come home as a sham.

In a statement posted on the NDF website, Sison said Duterte was in fact demanding the leaders of its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA) and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) to surrender.

“Duterte never gets tired of repeatedly terminating the peace negotiations. He terminated the peace talks with the NDF on Nov. 23, 2017 with Proclamation 360, and again in December 2017 with Proclamation 374, designating the CPP and NPA as terrorist organizations,” Sison said.

He said Duterte will be known in history as a  “murderer and terminator of the peace negotiations.”

“It was a sham that Duterte was inviting me to return to the Philippines after he issued those two proclamations. He was demanding all along the surrender of the revolutionary movement before any comprehensive agreement on social, economic and political reforms,” Sison said.

He said the President is hell-bent on establishing a fascist dictatorship.

“He had to terminate the peace negotiations to be able to scapegoat the CPP-NPA for the purpose of declaring martial law nationwide,” Sison said.