An end to armed conflict?: Inquirer


Supporters marching to pay respects to the late Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison in Quezon, the Philippines, on Dec 19. - AFP

MANILA (Philippine Daily Inquirer/Asia News Network): Will the death last week of Jose Maria Sison, the founding chair of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing the New People’s Army (NPA), finally put an end to the country’s long-running insurgency problem?

Sison died Friday, reportedly of heart failure, after weeks of hospital confinement in The Netherlands, where he has lived in self-exile since 1987. He was 83.

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