InterAksyon file photo of Sen. Panfilo Lacson
Communist rebels "should be made criminally liable" if they would push through with their announcement that they would arrest former President Benigno Aquino III and other personalities over the violent dispersal of protesting farmers in Kidapawan City, North Cotabato last year.
Senator Panfilo Lacson issued this statement on Monday, April 3, saying that arresting Aquino and others placed under the liquidation list of the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (NDF) would be a "criminal act" by "enemies of state."
"It is the responsibility of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, as well as all law-abiding citizens of this country, to protect former President Aquino and all those placed under the...list," said Lacson.
"Having said that, there is only one duly constituted authority that can mete out any form of penalty against anybody found violating the laws of the land, and that is a court of law of the Republic of the Philippines. Anybody else is unauthorized and therefore illegal," the senator added.
The NDF-Southern Mindanao earlier said the “revolutionary government” had “indicted” Aquino and others over the April 1, 2016 Kidapawan incident, which left two persons dead and more than a dozen others injured.
Also indicted for “war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law” were North Cotabato Governor Emmylou Taliño-Mendoza, Kidapawan City Mayor Joseph Evangelista, North Cotabato Rep. Nancy Catamco, and several other government, military, and police officials.
Rubi del Mundo, spokesperson of the NDF Southern Mindanao Region, said the indictment “effectively prescribed the arrest of the respondents.”
“The indictment recommended that the named respondents, after due trial by a People’s Court, be meted out with appropriate penalties for having committed the above-mentioned acts constituting war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious violation of international humanitarian law and human rights law,” Del Mundo said in a statement.
http://interaksyon.com/article/138233/lacson-communist-rebels-are-enemies-of-state-theyll-be-criminally-liable-if-they-arrest-pnoy
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