By Ronron
March 3, 2007
Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Founding Chairman Jose Maria Sison promptly defended on Saturday his partying last December with Filipino entertainers and migrant workers in The Netherlands where he is on exile.
In a statement posted on his website www.josemariasison.org, Sison said the Christmas party that he attended where the photographs were taken was “the biggest festivity of the Filipino community in The Netherlands,” in which he was invited as a special guest.
“It was perfectly alright for me to have kodakan (picture-taking), yugyugan (dancing), and kantahan (singing) with the Filipina movie and and singing star Ara Mina, Janno Gibbs and migrant workers during a Christmas Party… Members of the negotiating panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) headed by chairperson Luis Jalandoni and the Philippine embassy officials headed by Ambassador Romeo Arguelles were there to mix with the Filipino community,” Sison said.
He said his presence at the event does not mean he is already living a very comfortable life in Europe. “I am prohibited from working for a wage and yet my social benefits have been terminated due to the “terrorist” listing started and pushed by the US government upon the special request of the Arroyo regime,” said Sison.
He said the event was not even extravagant, “nothing compared to the wild parties thrown by the sybaritic officials of the Arroyo regime and its Armed Forces.”
The communist leader also belied Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Public Information Officer Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro’s allegation that ordinary New People’s Army (NPA) rebels are “rotting” in Philippine mountains as they continue their revolutionary struggle, while he is enjoying life in exile.
“I think that the people should also visit everyday the website www.philippinerevolution.net to know the happy and creative political, economicc, social and cultural life and the heroic and successful revolutionary struggles of the people and the revolutionary forces like the (CPP), the NPA, the NDFP, the mass organizations and organs of democratic power,” Sison said.
Sison said instead of bringing the public’s attention to him, the AFP should just do its job if indeed it is concerned about the plight of the Filipino people.
“The reactionary Armed Forces should stop the extrajudicial killing, abduction and torture of so many people and the massive military operations, attacking the rural and urban communities in the Philippines and displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and farms,” he said.
“The Arroyo regime should stop its puppetry to US imperialism, its corruption, its plundering and its brutality in using the reactionary Armed Forces, police and death squads against the broad masses of the people, and the progressive legal activists and critics,” he added.
On Friday, Bacarro said he chanced upon the website of Sison bearing the latter’s photos with Filipino actress Ara Mina, and singer Janno Gibbs. Another photo of him dancing was also taken during a Valentine’s Day party this year.
Bacarro said the photos shows how insensitive Sison is as a leader to ordinary NPA rebels who are suffering the Philippine mountains as they evade government troops./DMS
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