The rebel returnees flown to Manila for a dinner with President Rodrigo Duterte are “impostors” masquerading as former communist rebels, exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) Jose Maria “Joma” Sison said on Friday.

The so-called former fighters from the New People’s Army (NPA), the CPP’s armed wing, are either only “close relatives” of barangay (village) officials or soldiers “in civilian clothes.”

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