‘Surrender’ Joma Sison, Absalon killers!

FILIPINOS from all walks of life and across political divide have rejected the “apology” proffered by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) over the senseless murder of Kieth and Nolvin Absalon in Masbate last June 6, 2021, as they also called on the Dutch government to ‘surrender’ CPP founder Jose Maria Sison to Philippine authorities and for the CPP to surrender the members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who killed the Absalons.

In a protest rally at the Dutch Embassy in Makati City last June 10, 2021, four days after the bombing in Masbate, members from the League of Parents of the Philippines, La Independecia Filipinas, Duterte Youth, Melchora and Youth Power Against Destabilization and Terrorism, again trooped to the embassy and called on the Royal Government of the Netherlands to stop giving aid and comfort to Sison and deport him back immediately to face charges in any Philippine court.

Although these groups have been regularly conducting protest activities in front of the Dutch embassy for continuing to coddle the terrorist leader since 1988 on the ground of “political persecution” should he return, their demand for the Dutch government to surrender Sison has gained urgency considering the brutality of the Absalon murders.

A week after the incident and with more details coming out, it is now confirmed that aside from exploding an APM (anti-personnel mine) in Bgy. Anas, Masbate City as the Absalons were passing by, the NPA group then proceeded to execute Kieth and Nolven by pumping bullets into them (see banner story on related issue regarding APM).

Their autopsy report confirmed their cause of death as “hemorrhagic shock due to gunshot wound and blast injuries.”

CPP legal chicanery backfires on them

On June 8, 2021, amidst the outpouring of rage over the incident, the CPP finally admitted the NPA’s complicity in the attack and offered its “sincerest condolences” to Absalon family.

The CPP also claim it is ready to give “indemnity” to the Absalon family, also claiming they would have the incident “investigated.”

On June 11, 2021, the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), the CPP body in charge of creating bogus legal organizations and the infiltration of all sectors of society thru these fake mass organizations, affirmed the CPP-NPA apology but stressed they would not surrender the killers of the Absalons.

Most people know that the CAHRIHL, the JMC and all other previously signed agreement between the government and the NDFP are all now non-existent after Pres. Duterte formally ended the peace talks in March 2019.

The NDFP claimed they would undertake their own “investigation” under their own rules and Constitution even as they are also seeking ways to turn the table against the Philippine government and the military by highlighting the alleged more gross human rights violations perpetrated by state forces.

Citing a no longer existing agreement, the 1992 ‘CAHRIHL’ (Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law), and the equally dissolved ‘JMC’ (Joint Monitoring Committee), the NDFP said, “… the NDFP has sole jurisdiction over complaints against units and personnel of the New People’s Army (NPA), in the same way that the GRP has the sole jurisdiction over complaints against its own armed units and personnel.”

The CPP, thru its front organizations in Congress, the Makabayan Bloc, also last June 8 tried to create the legal fiction that the right venue for the Absalons to file a complaint against the CPP-NPA is the JMC.

However, all these resort to legal chicanery by the communists have backfired on them, mainly because most people know that the CAHRIHL, the JMC and all other previously signed agreement between the government and the NDFP are all now non-existent after Pres. Duterte formally ended the peace talks in March 2019 and along with all, the validity of all GRP-NDFP signed agreements.

Pres. Duterte also subsequently followed other countries in declaring the CPP-NPA-NDFP as terrorist organizations that thus prohibited the government from negotiating with terrorists as a matter of state policy.

In late 2018, already convinced that the peace talk is going nowhere, Pres. Duterte on December 4, 2018, signed Executive Order 70, institutionalizing a ‘whole of nation’ approach to end the five-decades old CPP-NPA-NDFP terrorism and lawlessness thru the creation of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC).