Jose Maria Sison

José María Sison, known as Armando Liwanag, Joma ( born February 8, 1939 in Cabugao, Philippines ) is a Filipino writer.

Biography

He is the founder and alleged leader of the Maoist- revolutionary Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (CPP ) and its military wing, the Nuevo Ejército del Pueblo (NPA, German: New People's Army ), which according to EU figures with a few thousand fighters since 1969 a guerrilla war leads. He is considered the chief advisor of the CPP -led National Democratic Alliance Front of the Philippines ( NDFP ).

In 1977 he was captured by the minions of the Marcos dictatorship and ended up in solitary confinement. Only through a pardon from President Corazon Aquino after the fall of Ferdinand Marcos in early March 1986, he was released from prison.

He has been living in exile in the Netherlands in 1987 and was led from 2002 to 2009 by the EU on the list of supporters of terror. He lost in the Netherlands several asylum procedure, but may be because of the threat of political persecution in his home country not to be deported to the Geneva Convention. A ruling by the European Court of Justice ( ECJ) set in July 2007, he was not allowed to be on the list and has been deleted for a short time. With regard to details of various asylum procedure in the Netherlands, he was listed again shortly before the publication of the judgment. 2009, the ECJ ruled in his favor again for a deletion. The judgment is still on appeal ECJ allowed. (October '09)

Since 2004, Sison is Chairman of the International Confederation of popular struggles ( ILPS ).

For the collection of poetry Prison & Beyond, he won the 1986 SEA Write Award.

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