* Newstin.co.uk is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.co.uk and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.co.uk is for sale! *

Communists face murder trial

Manila: The founder of the 39-year old Communist Party of the Philippines (CCP), a communist peace negotiator, and a leftist congressman will be tried in Manila's lower court for allegedly ordering the summary execution of comrades who were suspected as military spies, in central Philippines in the 1980s. The multiple murder case filed against CCP Chairman Jose Maria Sison, National Democratic Front (NDF) negotiating panel chairman Luis Jalondoni, and Congressman Satur Ocampo of the militant Nation First, was assigned to Judge Thelma Bunyi-Medina of the Manila Trial Court, the clerk of court said. Congressman Ocampo denied the charges saying he was imprisoned by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, when the alleged purge of suspected communist spies occurred in Inopacan, Southern Leyte in 1985. Ocampo was arrested last year on... [read full story]                    

Add Comment
There are also 4 related articles
View all news articles about*:
*Newstin tag cloud displays all featured persons, associated organisations, related topics, regions and companies