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BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
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MANILA – The government asked a court to declare the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), as terrorist organizations.
In a petition filed at the Manila Regional Trial Court on Wednesday, the Department of Justice cited Republic Act 9372, or the Human Security Act of 2007.
Section 17 of the law provides that the government, through the DOJ, must seek clearance from a court before a group may be declared a terrorist and outlawed.
The CPP and the NPA have “an evil plan of imposing a totalitarian regime,” the DOJ wrote in the petition signed by Senior Associate State Prosecutor Peter Ong.
“The CPP and the NPA are merely buying time by deceiving the Philippine government in entering into peace talks,” read part of the petition.
“Their main purpose is to mobilize all their forces in preparation for the people’s war aimed at overthrowing the duly constituted authority, seizing control of the Philippine government and imposing a totalitarian regime,” it read further.
The move came more than two months after President Rodrigo Duterte issued a proclamation on Dec. 5 last year classifying the CPP and the NPA as terrorist organizations.
Duterte gave the tag amid the “continued violent acts of the CPP-NPA which sow and create a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace.”/PN
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