Joma Sison dies at the age of 83 and Sara Duterte has this very short statement.
SARA DUTERTE – Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte issues an official statement over Joma Sison who died at age 83.
Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison died on Friday night at the age of 83. He; passed away two weeks after he got confined in a hospital in the Netherlands. Sison is the founder of the Philippine Communist Party – its military wing is the New People’s Army (NPA) and its political wing is the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP).
CPP chief information officer Marco Valbuena was the one who confirmed this news. Joma was famous for being a Filipino writer and activist. He was born on February 8, 1939, and had this Marxism-Leninism-Maoism theory view on the political situation of the Philippines.
And the conflict between the government and the NPA has already killed thousands of individuals.
Current Vice President Sara Duterte has become aware of his death and issued an official statement. It wasn’t the usual lengthy statement as the vice president has only written:
“May God have mercy on his soul.”
Ito ang opisyal na pahayag ni Vice Pres. Sara Duterte matapos sumakabilang buhay si Communist Party of the Philippines founding chair Joma Sison. #News5
— News5 (@News5PH) December 17, 2022
📷: VP Sara Duterte pic.twitter.com/7wrjWEgsIV
He accordingly died peacefully but the reason behind his confinement was not disclosed in the statement. The late communist leader has lived in Europe since he got released from prison following the fall of Marcos’ dictatorship. And in 2002, he was included in the terrorist list of the United States which did not allow him to travel.
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