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(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 […]
(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 […]
HAWIJA, Iraq (AFP) — Iraqi authorities said they uncovered a new mass grave containing the remains of dozens of people in an area of northern Kirkuk province once held by the Islamic State group. Security forces have discovered dozens of mass graves since they drove out IS in 2017 after three years of occupation of swathes of northern and western Iraq. The United Nations said in November that more than 200 mass graves containing up to […]
by Ignacio Carvajal Agence France Presse COATZACOALCOS, Mexico (AFP) — Mexican authorities discovered at least 166 bodies at a mass grave site in Veracruz state, prosecutors said Thursday, the latest horrifying find in a region hit by bloody drug cartel turf wars. Home to the city of Veracruz, one of Mexico’s largest ports, the eastern state has a history of corrupt politics and grisly power struggles between rival cartels — a toxic mix that has […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday he would visit Ozamiz sometime soon to “warn” policemen who he said killed at the behest of alleged narcopoliticians, the Parojinogs, that their actions would have consequences. “I will not tell you when (I will visit) but I will warn policemen there. Those responsible for the death of six soldiers before, you will have your comeuppance,” Duterte said before members of the police force who were […]
