{"id":155775,"date":"2018-03-09T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=155775"},"modified":"2018-03-09T20:12:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T01:12:39","slug":"doj-seeks-to-tag-joma-sison-un-rapporteur-648-others-as-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/09\/doj-seeks-to-tag-joma-sison-un-rapporteur-648-others-as-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ seeks to tag Joma Sison, UN rapporteur, 648 others as terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison (Photo: Joma Sison\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed before the National Capital Region (NCR) Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 19 a petition seeking to formally tag 649 individuals as terrorists.<\/p>\n

According to the petition, the list included founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Jose Maria Sison \u201cJoma\u201d Sison and United Nations (UN) special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.<\/p>\n

Other individuals listed were communist rebels from CPP and its armed group New People\u2019s Army (NPA) a.k.a. Bagong Hukbong Bayan and National Democratic Front (NDF) peace negotiators Luis Jalandoni, Coni Ledesma, Randall Echanis, and Rafael Baylosis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis petition is filed pursuant to Section 17 of Republic Act (RA) No. 9372 of \u2018The Human Security Act of 2007\u2019 seeking for an Order from this Honorable Court declaring respondents, namely the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and the New People’s Army also known as Bagong Hukbong Bayan as terrorist and outlawed organizations, associations and\/or group of persons,\u201d the petition read.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is declared a policy of the State to protect life, liberty, and property from acts of terrorism, to condemn terrorism as inimical and dangerous to the national security of the country and to the welfare of the people, and to make terrorism a crime against the Filipino people against humanity, and against the law of nations,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n

According to the petition, the DOJ is vested upon the authority to apply the order of terrorist tagging before the RTC.<\/p>\n

President Rodrigo Roa Duterte on November 29, said that an executive order (EO) was being prepared to declare the NPA as terrorists.<\/p>\n

(Read: Duterte prepares EO tagging communists as terrorists<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\u201cI am preparing now. They are preparing the executive order declaring them to be terrorists and they will be afforded the treatment of being criminals,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Duterte, he stopped the talks with the NPA as they are not really serious. He said that they do not have the \u201cechelons\u201d to put up a fight, and they are just being \u201ccomfortable\u201d by biding their time. He added that the \u201cactive sparrows\u201d as he called them, have been ambushing his policemen and soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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