Netherlands to Deport CPP Founder Joma Sison Back to the Philippines in 2018

The Netherlands is set to deport Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder, Jose Maria Sison back to the Philippines early next year, 2018. This is after the Dutch government agreed to President Rodrigo Duterte when he declared last week that the CPP, and its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA) as terrorist organizations.
“Yes, it appears that it’s going to happen soon. Our government does not allow terrorists to stay in our country.” Ambassador Robert Vornis, Dutch envoy to the Philippines told reporters on Monday, December 11 when asked to confirm the deportation order to Joma Sison, adding that the United States decided not to intervene with Sison’s case.

And although Vornis did not elaborate further, he said that the Dutch parliament (The Hague) has read President Duterte’s Proclamation No. 374, declaring CPP-NPA as a terrorist organization. The said proclamation was announced last Friday by Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, adding that financers of the group shall also be arrested.
Roque then cited Republic Act 10168 or the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act of 2012 as basis for the proclamation, which was signed a week after President Duterte terminated the peace talks between the government and the communists. Nevertheless, the DOJ still needs the approval from the court.

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But while waiting for the court order, which political analysts believe to be in favor of the President Duterte, the Dutch government was said to have enough basis for Joma Sison’s deportation. Besides the terror that the NPA has been doing in the Philippines over the decades, the 78-year old CPP founder has pending criminal cases in the Netherlands.
On August 28, 2007, the International Crime Investigation Team of the Dutch National Criminal Investigation Department arrested Jose Maria Sison in Utrecht. He was the prime suspect of ordering the killing of his three former allies, NPA chief Romulo Kintanar in 2003, and Arturo Tabara and his son-in-law, Stephen Ong, both in 2006.