MSOpinion The CPP-NPA transitions “It is time to have peace in the country; 53 years of fighting is a long time” READ:
The statement of former President Rodrigo Duterte describing the passing of CPP/NPA founder Jose Maria Sison in the Netherlands at the age of 83 was quite apt.
He was captured by the government in La Union in 1977 and spent nine years in prison until released by the government of President Cory Aquino in 1986. History tells us that leadership strugglers within the CPP/NPA are sometimes violent. Who will take over from Joma Sison is anybody’s guess. In fact, we used to conduct operations in the exact place where the CPP/NPA was founded which, if I remember correctly, was in Barangay Murcia, but I cannot be too sure.It is now one of the longest insurgencies left in the world.
If there was one Philippine leader who understood the culture within the CPP/NPA, it was former President Duterte.
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