A portent of things to come?
AS THE country is rocked by the revelations made by the wife of Commission on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Andres Bautista regarding multi-billion worth of undeclared bank accounts and properties, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) sneaks in a statement claiming that the Armed Forces of the Philippines through its chief of staff General Eduardo Año and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) are out to assassinate Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chair Jose Maria Sison in The Netherlands.
The assassination plot, the NDFP claims, is upon the verbal orders of President Rodrigo R. Duterte and Año.
First question: Who benefits most from the assassination of Sison? Definitely not Duterte nor the Philippines. The biggest winner should this ever happen are the hawks in the CPP-NDF-New People’s Army triad, who amid the negotiations for peace (before this was finally thrown back at the faces of the rebels), were busy abducting, killing, and staging offensives.
There could be an assassination plot, we can never discount that considering that Sison has long held that claim that he has power over the CPP-NPA-NDF, but it is doubtful if it is upon the verbal orders of the President. NDFP needs to give a more believable story, otherwise, the blame will be on them.
Apparently, they know they will be blamed because in the same statement, it claimed that “the head and members of the assassinating team will be made to appear as entirely renegades or dropouts from the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the communist group, although the fact was that they were handpicked from the AFP’s Special Forces.”
The assassination plot is intended to “demoralize the revolutionary forces and possibly sow confusion and pandemonium among them,” the statement read.
By the way the so-called revolutionaries on the ground have been flouting the peace negotiations, it is no longer believable that the assassination of Sison would even cause demoralization among the ranks. From how the ground commanders have been acting, Sison no longer has the clout.
The claimed assassination plot against the President, however, is more believable. With the way the President has been stepping on big interests, the oligarchs and drug lords and even those who want war with China and their ilk have everything to gain if the President is taken out of the picture. Except that, President Duterte has long known there will be those who want to kill him, so this is nothing new.
He is even resigned to such a fate, as he joined the race for the Presidency knowing that there will be multibillion interests he would be stepping on.
Next story, please. A more believable one, if possible.
Our question now is: Why did the NDFP come out with this statement? A fish is caught by its mouth, an adage goes.
— Sunnex