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...
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