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DOJ seeks rearrest of NDF consultants released on bail


The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the courts to cancel the bail bonds and direct the arrests of National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants facing criminal cases following the scrapping of peace negotiations with the communist rebels.

Among the NDFP consultants who have been released on bail are Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army leaders Benito and Wilma Tiamzon, who are facing multiple murder and kidnapping charges before the courts in Manila and Quezon City.

“In view of the cancellation of the peace talks, there is no more legal ground for the continuous provisional liberty of the accused,” stated the motion dated November 24, which was filed with the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32.

“Thus, the immediate recommitment and cancellation of bail of all the accused should logically follow,” it added.

The Tiamzons and Adelberto Silva are among the accused in the murder case pending at Manila RTC Branch 32 which stemmed from the discovery of the mass grave in Leyte containing suspected victims of the communist rebel purge in the 1980s.

Duterte signed Proclamation 360 on November 23, declaring the termination of peace talks with the NDFP-CPP-NPA due to the latter's continued attacks on government forces and civilians.

The President also labeled the CPP-NPA as terror organizations with the DOJ expected to file a petition in the Regional Trial Court soon to legally declare them as terror groups under the Human Security Act (Republic Act 9372). —KG, GMA News

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