Rights group hits OPAPP’s peace business

“The government’s peace initiatives have become a business venture rather than a sincere effort to go into the root causes of the armed conflict and solve poverty, landlessness and joblessness. Presidential pork oils OPAPP to put up every obstacle it can think of in the peace the process, especially with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, as it continues to ignore all previously signed agreements and commitment. The government continues to insist on the surrender of the members of the revolutionary movement as if this will end the armed conflict,” said Palabay.

Even in the guise of livelihood projects through the PAMANA or Payapa at Masaganang Pamayanan, Karapatan said OPAPP could not boast of judicious use of billions of people’s money “especially because it is used to finance paramilitary groups like the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) or the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB).” Both groups are involved in several cases of human rights violations in the Cordillera region and Negros provinces, respectively.||| |||buy fildena online with |||