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<h1 id="reader-title">Philippines to Declare 600 Alleged
Communists 'Terrorists'?</h1>
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<div id="reader-estimated-time">March 8, 2018<br>
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<p>The Philippines is seeking to declare over 600 alleged
communist guerrillas “terrorists,” according to a
government petition in court seen by Reuters.</p>
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<p>The country's justice ministry said last month that it
was seeking for a Manila court to officially declare
both the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP)
and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA) as
“terrorist” groups.</p>
<p>Among those targeted are Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, who was
a United Nations special rapporteur on the rights of
Indigenous peoples, four Catholic priests, Communist
Party founder Jose Maria Sison, and several former
lawmakers.</p>
<p>“Duterte is engaged in a wild anti-communist witchhunt
under the guise of anti-terrorism,” Sison said. “Duterte
is truly the No. 1 terrorist in the Philippines.”</p>
<p>The NPA has waged a People's War against the
Philippines government, which is called “semifeudal” and
“semicolonial” for half a century. When President
Rodrigo Duterte came to office in 2016, some expected
him to seek a solution to the conflict when he freed
several communist prisoners.</p>
<p>Those hopes were quickly shattered, as Duterte quickly
became among the harshest anti-communist leaders the
Philippines has had since its military dictatorship.</p>
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