If the Dutch government will keep on denying the demand of Filipinos to repatriate Communist Part of the Philippines founder Jose Maria “Joma” Sison to the Philippines, a group said Thursday they will have to declare them responsible for the deaths and destruction caused by the CPP and the New People’s Army “from the moment Joma Sison landed in Netherlands until the present.”
“To Prime Minister Mark Rutte, we expect you to make the right decision. The blood will be in your hands if Joma Sison’s terrorist group kills another innocent civilian,” said Jose Antonio “Ka Pep” Goitia, Secretary General of the Liga Independencia Pilipinas Inc. (LIPI), in a statement.
In a related development, Police Brig. Gen. Eliseo DC Cruz, Calabarzon Police Regional Director, led officials in giving food packs and sacks of rice to 15 former rebels during the presentation of Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) surrenderers at the Multi-Purpose Center in Camp Hen. Vicente Lim in Calamba City, Laguna
Ten of the food and rice recipients were identified to be operating in the “Red Areas” of the region, and the other five were operating in the “White Areas.” All 15 voluntarily surrendered to authorities during the joint counter-insurgency operations of the PNP and their Armed Forces of the Philippines counterparts.
“When will the government of Netherlands ever realize that Joma Sison, their asylee, the self-confessed leader of the CPP-NPA, is responsible for 40,000 combat-related deaths since 1969? Responsible for kidnapping locals and foreigners, extortion and killings, whose aim is to overthrow the Philippine government using guerrilla-style tactics?” Goitia said.
“When will the government of Netherlands ever realize that cuddling the leader of a terrorist group makes them complicit in a protracted war waged by the CPP-NPA against the government of the Philippines, leading to more deaths and destruction of property?” he added.
The CPP-NPA recently took full responsibility in the killing of two innocent people and injuring a boy, which Goitia said is “completely unacceptable to peace-loving Filipinos.”
Despite declaring “deep remorse” for the “untimely and unnecessary” deaths of two noncombatants, the LIPI chief said: “We will never forgive these atrocities. We will seek justice!”
The reason countries establish embassies and consulates in other countries, Goitia said, is not only to take care of the needs of their citizens abroad, but to establish a political, social, and cultural relationship with the host country, strengthening ties and cooperation between two nations.
“However, this may not be the case with the Netherlands anymore. Their contention of letting Joma Sison stay in the Netherlands is that he may be subjected to human rights abuse if he goes back,” he said.
To disregard a functioning justice system of another country is conflicting with the mission of an embassy to establish trust, which is the basic element of a relationship, Goitia added.
The CPP-NPA has been declared as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.
“To acknowledge the word of a terrorist leader against the policy of Philippine government and other countries on anti-terrorism is an insult to the sensibilities of the human race,” Goitia said. with Roy Tomandao