by Raymund B. Villanueva

From the introduction: “This volume starts in June 2017 after GRP President Rodrigo Duterte scuttled what have been the fifth formal round of negotiations… [A]ll the way to September 2018 when it ends, this collection of news reports chronicles a tragically familiar reform: violations of previously-signed agreements that should govern the negotiations, arrests of personalities involved in the peace process, as well as accusations and counter-accusations. The acrimony increases as retired military generals in the GRP Cabinet became powerful mouthpieces of the Manila government’s ever-increasing antagonism against the resumption of formal negotiations. “But this volume is also about the near-heroic efforts of both negotiating panels to continue forging agreements on social and economic reforms, ceasefires and release of political prisoners that would have paved the way for an interim peace agreement. Had those documents been signed, the GRP-NDFP peace process could have achieved victories unimaginable but to its truest believers and champions.” — The People’s Alternative Media Network (Altermidya)

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Price: PHP250.00

ISBN: 9786218156098

Author: Raymund B. Villanueva

Genre: History, Politics

Publisher: Pantas Publishing Inc., Kodao Productions Inc.