Jose Maria Sison

DAVAO CITY, Philippines —- President Rodrigo Duterte’s scathing remarks against his former professor, Jose Maria Sison, was met with equally strong statement from the founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines on Monday, July 24. Sison said Duterte should recognize that there are two governments in the country.

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Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison denied Monday President Duterte’s claim that he had colon cancer and instead dared the President to reveal his health condition to the Filipino people. “It is Duterte who has to explain his disappearances for medical reasons because the public is entitled to know everything that pertains to his suitability for public office,” Sison said in a statement sent to the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Monday night.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday told Jose Ma. Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines, to commit suicide as a favor to the Norwegian government. The 78-year old Sison, who fled to Europe soon after peace talks failed in 1987, has been staying The Netherlands while the communist insurgency in the Philippines continued.

MANILA — President Duterte said on Tuesday, he would wage war with the communist rebels if they wanted it as he vented his anger at them anew. The President even taunted Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison over his health, telling him to go kill himself after Sison accused him of lying about his medical condition. Duterte told the public on Monday, the day he delivered his second State of the Nation Address that Sison has been diagnosed with colon cancer. Sison immediately denied it and said Duterte’s allegation was a personal attack.

President Duterte lashed at Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison for calling him a bully. “Correct ka diyan! 100 per cent,” Duterte said, in reply to Sison’s statement. “I bully people who want to overthrow the government, that is my job,” Duterte said.

Ginugunita ng bansang Pilipinas ngayong Hulyo ang ika-153 anibersaryo ng kapanganakan ni Apolinario Mabini na kinikiala bilang ‘Dakilang Paralitiko’ at ‘Utak ng Rebolusyon’ dahil sa kanyang mahahalagang ambag sa pagpupukaw sa damdaming makabayan ng mga Pilipino na patuloy na naninindigan at lumalaban para sa tunay at ganap na kasarinlan ng bansa..

By his own public declarations and expressions of admiration for the fascist dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos, Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte has long been obsessed with his scheme to establish his own iron-fisted rule through martial law and extrajudicial killings..