[News] Sison "extradition" a U.S.-Malacañang Scheme

[Anti-Imperialist News]

PRESS RELEASE
Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
January 13, 2006


SISON EXTRADITION, A U.S. - MALACAÑANG SCHEME -- CPP

The Communist Party of the Phlippines today 
charged that alleged plans by the Netherlands 
government to extradite National Democratic Front 
of the Philippines' Chief Political Consultant 
Jose Maria "Ka Joema" Sison to the Philippines is 
a "dirty US-Malacañang scheme" intended to 
deprive Sison of his status as a political 
refugee and make him an open target of either the 
"US terrorists and the fascist Arroyo regime's death squads".

CPP spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal said 
that Malacañang wants the public to believe that 
it is the Dutch government that wishes to deport 
Sison. In fact, Rosal said, it is the US and its 
puppet, the Arroyo government that have long been 
conspiring to force Sison's repatriation.

Rosal said that the Arroyo regime has long been 
pushing Sison's extradition. He noted that last 
December, the Department of Justice (DoJ) 
included Sison's name in an amended complaint 
that charges him with complicity in the 2001 
killing of ex-Col. Rodolfo Aguinaldo. Information 
on the amended case was sent to The Netherlands 
in the form of a revised DoJ resolution dated 1 
December 2005. Sison has vehemently denied 
involvement in Aguinaldo's death. The New 
People's Army has early on claimed responsibility 
for killing Aguinaldo, who gained notoriety 
during the Marcos dictatorship for his 
involvement in brutal counter-insurgency 
campaigns and the torture and murder of various political dissenters.

Rosal lambasted Executive Secretary Eduardo 
Ermita for brazenly deceiving the public when he 
claimed on January 11 that the Arroyo government 
supported what he alleged to be Dutch government 
moves to have Sison extradited. In the same 
breath, however, he admitted that Dutch officials 
themselves had expressed reservations about the 
extradition. Rosal pointed out that in the 
absence of an extradition treaty between the two 
countries, the Dutch government had no obligation 
to send Sison back to the Philippines.

Rosal said that the US and Arroyo governments' 
persistence to have Sison extradited are all in 
violation of Dutch, European Union and 
international laws with regard his rights as a 
political refugee. He cited Article 3 of the 
European Convention on Human Rights which 
prohibits the transfer of refugees to any country 
where they run the risk of being subjected to 
torture or any form of inhumane or degrading 
treatment or punishment and of being sentenced to death.

Rosal said that threats to Sison's life should he 
be forced to return to the Philippines are all 
too real, given the fact that the Arroyo regime 
has been at the forefront of campaigns to vilify 
him, the CPP and the New People's Army as 
"terrorists". He said that once in the 
Philippines, Sison will become an "open target of 
the Arroyo regime's fascist murderers".

"Under the Arroyo regime, anti-government 
activists, human rights advocates and leaders and 
members of democratic and progressive 
organizations have become fair game for 
Malacañang-instigated and AFP/PNP-directed death squads," Rosal stressed.

"Ka Joema has been one of the prime targets of 
the Arroyo government's campaign of state 
terrorism and villification. Arroyo terribly 
hates Ka Joema as he is able to inspire the 
Filipino people to rise up against her corrupt and rotten regime," added Rosal.

Reference:
Marco Valbuena
Media Officer
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