Communists’ 50-year rebellion a ‘failure’ — Palace
Credit to Author: CATHERINE S. VALENTE, TMT| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 10:33:26 +0000
MALACANANG dismissed the communist insurgency in the country as a “failed rebellion,” as the rebel group celebrated its 50th founding anniversary on Wednesday.
Palace spokesman Salvador Panelo made the statement as he criticized communist leader Jose Maria “Joma” Sison who said previously that the country continued to “deteriorate” under President Rodrigo Duterte.
“The 50 years of Joma Sison’s rebellion speaks for itself. It’s a failed rebellion,” Panelo said in a statement.
“It only resulted in loss of lives of Filipinos, specially the numerous young students who were killed in battles, skirmishes, and battled sickness in the hills, who could have served their country well in peaceful and productive means, as well as destruction of properties,” Panelo said.
Panelo said rebel returnees were “coming in droves, responding to the call of the government to return to the fold of the law, while Sison remains ensconced in his ivory tower of comfort and luxury while his comrades die for a lost cause.”
Sison, founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), has been in exile at the Netherlands after peace talks with government failed in 1987.
“No wonder the forces on the ground no longer follow him hence his regular rants against PRRD (Duterte) to give himself the appearance of relevance,” Panelo said.
“It’s time for him to wave the white flag before his physique gives up on him. There is honor in returning back to a democratic society and embracing the constitutional order,” he said.
Sison said previously that the communist movement remained relevant, leading “a vibrant revolution” 50 years after it was founded.
In an interview with ABS-CBN News Channel on Wednesday, Sison also said that Duterte was a “modern maniac in power trying to put on a national scale [for] his bloodthirsty kind of character.”
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