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Already in the last weeks the Arroyo regime in Manila was announcing that it want to finish the "conflict"(actually a kind of civil war since over 30 years) with the Communist Party, the NDF and the New People's Army soon by force. Now, even the CPP/NDF is willing to resume talks with the govt, it seems that the regime is ready to launch the final deadly battle against the left opposition in the country.

Al Jazeera reported yesterday following:

Philippines forces merge in crackdown

Arroyo said she wanted to end 'revolutionary taxation'
  

The president of the Philippines has ordered the police and the military to combine forces to finish off the country's 37-year-old communist insurgency.

In a speech at the national police headquarters on Wednesday, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said she would soon sign an executive order designed to create a police and military "partnership in the battle against the left".

Last month, Arroyo announced a campaign against the communists backed by millions of dollars to buy helicopters and other equipment.

"As we run to ground the armed core of the terrorist left, we will erase the fear they want to instil in our people and we will defeat their objectives through nation-building," Arroyo said.

She also said that the police and the military would end the "revolutionary taxation" levied by communist fighters and protect those who refuse to pay.

"Butcher of democracy"

On Tuesday, Arroyo's spokesman, Ignacio Bunye, dismissed communist calls to resume peace talks, saying they must first agree to a cease-fire.

The communists broke off Norwegian-negotiated talks two years ago to protest against the government's refusal to lobby for their removal from US and European terror lists.

The National Democratic Front, which represented the fighters in the negotiations, has called for the talks to resume and for the end of a government crackdown on left-wing groups.

More than 600 activists and supporters have been killed and more than 170 others have gone missing since 2001, the group said.

"Unless the Arroyo regime wants to continue to be known as the butcher of democracy and political activists, it must issue an order to its military, police and paramilitary forces to cease and desist from these atrocities," the group said in a statement.

The communists say they will not sign a cease-fire before agreeing a political settlement.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/7E877E4B-6CEA-4144-9FC0-19481F5D69D9.htm

The Philippine(bourgeois) Daily Inquirer wrote yesterday this:

Gov’t sticks to war, rejects Reds’ peace bid

NDF works out revival of talks in Norway

MALACAÑANG remains committed to pursuing its all-out war against communist rebels even if exiled leaders of the communist-led National Democratic Front have asked Norway to convince President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo to return to the negotiating table.

In a statement, the NDF said it had sent its top leadership to Oslo on Monday for four days of consultations with the Norwegian foreign ministry...

Please read the full article here:

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view_article.php?article_id=8166

Bulatlat:

Bishop Says Arroyo’s All-Out War Promotes Death

A Catholic bishop said that the all-out war declared by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) is a promotion of death. He also said the declaration of all-out war after the abolition of the death penalty is a “contradiction of policy.”...

http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-21/6-21-bishop.htm

To learn more about the history of the "conflict" please check out for example wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_People%27s_Army

Just now I'd to learn that the web sites of CPP, NDF.. are disappeared...(what a surprise! It's already WAR!)