Monitoring Desk ISLAMABAD/ MANILA: Self-exiled Philippine communist leader Maria Sison died at the age of 83 on Friday night after 2-week confinement in the hospital in Netherlands, his party said on Saturday.
Sison founder of communisty party
Sison was the founder of the Philippine Communist Party, whose military wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), has been waging an armed rebellion in one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies. The tussle between the NPA and the Philippine government has claimed more than 40,000 people so far.
The self-exiled communist leader has lived in Europe since the late 1980s after he was released from jail following the fall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whose namesake son was elected as president in May.
Philippine communist leader was put on the US terrorist list in 2002, barring him from traveling abroad.
His party said that “even as we mourn, we promise to continue giving all our political party strength and determination to carry the revolution forward, led by the memory and teachings of the people beloved Ka Joma.”
Sison, also known as Joma, means comrade.
