Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Philippine Communist Party, is shown with his wife Julie de Lima at a 2007 press conference at his headquarters in the Dutch city of Utrecht. He has lived in the Netherlands since 1987. ReutersFrom The Wall Street Journal:
Communist Group's Founder Says Ranks of Guerrillas to Grow.
UTRECHT, the Netherlands -- More than 40 years after founding the Communist Party of the Philippines, a former literature professor who has long stayed outside his homeland says the party's military wing plans to significantly increase its armed capabilities in the next three years
Jose Maria Sison, who was imprisoned in 1977 by then-President Ferdinand Marcos and freed in 1986 by Corazon Aquino shortly after "People Power" put her in power, says the insurgency he seeded with Maoist ideas intends to use sympathizers to recruit 3,000 to 5,000 new guerrillas in impoverished rural areas.
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My Comment: The last time a person who went to Europe to become a "university professor", and returned back to Asia was Pol Pot, the leader of the Communist Khmer Rouge who were responsible for murdering 3 million Cambodian citizens in the 1970s.
Shame on the Netherlands for giving refugee status to someone who openly boasts of an organization that is committed to revolution and mass murder.