Irate Digong challenges Joma to gunfight
DAVAO CITY – President Rodrigo Roa Duterte continued to convey his displeasure and anger at the Left, and has even challenged his former professor Jose Maria Sion, founding chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), to a gunfight.
"Sison sige’g daldal, umuwi ka dito aron barilan tayong dalawa para tapos na itong gulo. Winner take all tayo (Sison keeps on talking,just come back here and let's shoot each other so we can end this. It will be a winner take all)," Duterte said during a party he threw for the Davao media on Fridaynight, December 15.
Sison has been living in exile in The Netherlands since 1987.
The latest tirade of the tough-talking President came weeks after he signed a proclamation to end the peace negotiations with the Communists.
The Presidential Proclamation No. 360 signed on November 23, stated that "the NDF-CPP-NPA failed to show its sincerity and commitment in pursuing genuine and meaningful peace negotiations as it engaged in acts of violence and hostilities, endangering the lives and properties of innocent people."
Duterte also signed on December 5, Proclamation No. 374 declaring the CPPNPA as "terrorist organization."
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is also seeking the court's declaration to legally declare the CPP and its armed wing, the NPA, as terrorist groups.
Sison previously described Duterte the "No. 1 terrorist and butcher of the Filipino people." This he said after condemning the move to extend Martial Law in Mindanao for another year.
In a statement on December 14, Sison said under the extended Martial Law "the gross and systematic violation of human rights in Mindanao will certainly escalate."
"Duterte chose to label the CPP and NPA as terrorist, impose martial law and his fascist dictatorship on the people exactly at the time that the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines were advancing at a rapid rate," Sison added. (Zea C. Capistrano)