Joma Sison is dead; NegOcc guv, Army urge NPA in Negros to abandon arms

From Panay News (Dec 19, 2022): Joma Sison is dead; NegOcc guv, Army urge NPA in Negros to abandon arms (By DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA)

BACOLOD City – Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson and a commander of the Philippine Army in Negros Occidental urged New People’s Army (NPA) rebels to abandon armed struggle following the death of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Ma. “Joma” Sison.

The NPA is the armed wing of the CPP.

Lacson said the passing of Sison should also end the armed revolution.

Sison died on Dec. 16 in a hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands where he had been living in self-imposed exile since 1988. He was 83.

Lacson said the Filipino people have been pursuing peace for a long time, and with Sison’s passing, the time has come for the rebels to work towards lasting and genuine peace.

The Philippine Army’s 303rd Infantry Brigade (303IBde) commander, Brigadier General Inocencio Pasaporte, meanwhile, is hoping that NPA rebels returning to their homes and families for Christmas should seriously think about what they are doing.

Pasaporte reiterated to the rebels that armed struggle is not supported by the Negrense masses.

Meanwhile, Regional Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (RTF6-ELCAC) spokesperson, Prosecutor Flosemer Chris Gonzales, said Sison will be remembered by the Filipino people as the founder of the single most destructive and most notorious terrorist organization in the Philippines.

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