(Eagle News)–The Department of the Interior and Local Government will ask the the Dutch government for help in the extradition of Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison. In a statement, Interior Secretary Eduardo Año said the Philippine government will in particular seek a “special arrangement” with the country that has no extradition pact with the Philippines. According to Año, the grounds would be that Sison’s “‘refugee status’ is no longer tenable […]
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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 […]
Manila court orders arrest of Joma Sison, others over mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte
(Eagle News)–A Manila court has ordered the arrest of Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison and over 30 others for multiple murder. Also ordered arrested by Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 in connection with a mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte were Leo Velasco, Rodolfo Salas alias Ka Bilog, Jose Luneta, and Luis Jalandoni, a senior adviser of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, among others. […]
Sison: There can be “no genuine peace negotiations” under Duterte
(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Wednesday, April 17, said there can be “no genuine peace negotiations” between the National Democratic Front of the Philippines and the Philippine government under President Rodrigo Duterte. Sison made the remark a day after Duterte reiterated his proposal for the CPP founding chair, who is in exile in The Netherlands, to return to the Philippines and talk peace. According to Sison, it was Duterte […]
Sison: Duterte can’t declare a revolutionary war because he is a “counter-revolutionary agent”
(Eagle News)—Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison believes President Rodrigo Duterte cannot declare a revolutionary war because he is a “bureaucrat capitalist of the worst kind” in the first place. “Duterte cannot engage in a revolutionary war because he is a counterrevolutionary agent of foreign monopoly capitalists, big compradors and big landlords,” Sison said in a statement. According to Sison, Duterte “should not misappropriate and besmirch the noble calling of revolutionary.” […]
Sison says Duterte drug war “fake”
(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison described President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs as “fake,” saying the chief executive himself was “openly protecting major drug lords and smugglers” including his son, Paolo. In fact, according to Sison, the war on drugs “has been carried out to suppress the drug syndicates that rival the Duterte drug syndicate and to realize the monopoly of the Duterte drug syndicate over the illegal drug […]
Palace slams Sison for saying Duterte “like an old broken record”
(Eagle News)—The Palace on Saturday, March 23, slammed Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Jose Maria Sison for saying President Rodrigo Duterte sounded “like an old broken record” with his permanent termination of peace talks. “If as Mr. Sison says the President sounds like a broken record, the cantankerous steak chieftain of the National Democratic Front is like an echo with his repeated criticisms of President Rodrigo Duterte and this administration to stay politically […]
Sison on Duterte following his permanent termination of peace talks: He’s “like an old broken record”
(Eagle News)– He’s like an “old broken record.” This was the reaction of Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to President Rodrigo Duterte’s announcement to permanently end peace talks with Communist rebels on Thursday, March 21. In a statement, Sison said “as far as the (National Democratic Front of the Philippines) is concerned, Duterte formally killed the peace negotiations on November 23, 2017, with his Proclamation 360 terminating them.” The proclamation sought […]
Duterte calls out Sison for trying to justify imposition of “revolutionary taxes”
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, Feb. 11, lashed out at Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison after he rejected the chief executive’s condition for Communists to stop imposing “revolutionary taxes” for peace talks to resume. “Gusto niyo patayan lang palagi, tapos mag-dream ka na kailangan ko mag extort kasi yung inyong gobyerno kailangan mabuhay,” Duterte said. But Duterte denied Sison had his own government in the first place. “‘Anong gobyerno? P**a** […]
Communist leader Sison again hits PHL president, claims Duterte should be blamed for Jolo bombing
(Eagle News) — Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison again criticized President Rodrigo Duterte as he issued a statement claiming the Philippine leader should be blamed for the Jolo, Sulu bombings that the military said was perpetrated by young terrorists connected with the Abu Sayyaf. The communist leader issued his latest tirade against Duterte days after the Jolo terror attack which the military said was perpetrated by the so-called Ajang Ajang group […]





