THE other day, I ran across a social media post of retired general Antonio Parlade Jr. detailing why the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison and his ilk are seething at him and his former colleagues at the NTF-Elcac (National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict) — former secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and undersecretary Lorraine Marie Badoy. It has something to do, according to Parlade, with their being instrumental in thwarting the CPP's most heinous plan to hijack the then ongoing peace talks and have the government use it for its own self-destruction.
Parlade said they were at a command conference with then-President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacañang sometime in June 2018, waiting for former Labor secretary Silvestro "Bebot" Bello 3rd to give them an update on the ongoing peace talks with the CPP-NPA-NDF.
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