The communist leadership are seeking the release of more than two dozen rebel leaders whom they claim are members of the negotiating panel as a precondition prior to the August 20-27 peace talks with the Government in Oslo, Norway.
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“Sa kabuuan, kami ay malaki ang tiwala na susulong at makakamit ang mga pagkakasundong pangkapayapaan para makamit ang mga repormang panlipunan”.
CPP-NPA leaders, Benito Tiamzon and wife Wilma are detained in separate cells in Camp Crame.
The Tiamzons were arrested by operatives of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippines (PNP) in March, 2014 in Barangay Zaragoza, Aloguinsan, Cebu.
Apart from the Tiamzons, NDFP legal counsel Edre Olalia said Jaime Soledad, Kennedy Bangibang, Ruben Saluta, Winona Birondo, Alfredo Mapano, Concha Bocala, Alan Jazmines, Tirso Alcanatara, Reynante Gamara, Ernesto Lorenzo, Ariel Arbitrario, Eduardo Genelsa, Adelberto Silva, and Loida Magpatoc had already been released.
The Tiamzon’s are among the 22 consultants listed by the NDF for the upcoming negotiations in Norway.
The couple left Camp Crame before noon yesterday after the Philippine National Police received a copy of the ruling of a court in Samar granting them temporary liberty.
“They will join 14 others so far released in peace talks in Oslo and for consultations with NDF Negotiating Panel”, he said in his post on Facebook.
The two will fly to Oslo, Norway as part of the working groups in the peace negotiations with the Government of the Philippines and National Democratic Front.
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The Philippine delegation, Dureza said, is set to leave the country on Saturday for the peace talks.
