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The military on Friday chided communist leader Jose
Maria Sison for partying in the Netherlands while his comrades are
consigned to a life of suffering in the hills.
“Jose Maria Sison is enjoying
life while his supporters [here] are rotting in hell,” Bacarro
told a press briefing in Camp Aguinaldo.
Bacarro was reacting to the
pictures posted on Sison’s website showing the self-exiled founder
of the National Democratic Front dancing with film siren Ara Mina.
The photos were taken during a
Christmas celebration of Filipino migrant workers in a hotel in
Amsterdam last December 9.
In another picture, Sison and
Mina posed with singer and TV host Janno Gibbs and Louie Jalandoni,
the NDF chairman.
The pictures are posted at
Sison’s website http://www.josemariasison.org.
When told that some military
officials also go partying, Bacarro said they are entitled to night
out as long as they don’t boast about it.
“We are, all of us are also
entitled to a social life… but it’s wrong when you start
boasting about it,” Bacarro said.
He said Sison might have been
ego-tripping when he posted the pictures on his website.
Bacarro said he pitied insurgents
of the New People’s Army who live in the mountains,
“I pity them… they should
challenge him. There is nothing wrong with posting pictures, but not
when your people on the ground are suffering in the mountains, at
the mercy of the elements,” Bacarro said.
--Anthony Vargas
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