Tag: Inopacan

Sison slams Duterte over arrest threat

(Eagle News)–Jose Maria Sison slammed President Rodrigo Duterte for what he said was his “ignorance of international law” following his threat to arrest the Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair who is facing multiple murder charges in a Manila court. The charges stem from the 2006 discovery of a mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte which  allegedly contains the remains of victims of a Communist purge in the 1980s. In a statement, Sison said Interpol, […]

Sison says he won’t surrender; multiple murder charges “patently false,” he says

(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison has described as “patently false” the multiple murder charges filed against him over a mass grave found in Inopacan, Leyte. In a statement posted on his Facebook account after he was ordered arrested by a Manila court,  Sison said he was under maximum security detention in 1985, and “as a prisoner, I had no position in the CPP or (New People’s Army) at that […]

Palace to Sison: Come home and “face the music”

(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 […]