(Eagle News)–The Palace on Friday, Sept. 6, urged Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison, who is in exile in The Netherlands, to return to the Philippines and face the multiple murder case filed against him.
In a statement issued after Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 issued an arrest warrant against him and over 30 others, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said Sison should “..face the music.”
“His elusive, if not illusory, dream of wresting political power from the present dispensation should give way to a principled and courageous stand to face trial,” Panelo said.
Panelo said Sison was “welcome to come home to avail of his constitutional right to confront his accusers and prepare for his defense.”
“The law is no respecter of any transgressor and prosecution, therefore, must proceed in accordance thereof. Mr. Sison, et al. will have their day in court,” Panelo added.
The warrant issued by Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina was in connection with the mass grave discovered in 2006 in Inopacan, Leyte.
The grave allegedly contained the remains of the victims of a New People’s Army purge in the 1980s.
Sison has been staying in Europe since Communist peace talks with the government failed in 1987.
