Tuesday, September 04, 2007 Ocampo says he won't replace Sison as communist leader
HOUSE senior deputy minority leader Satur Ocampo on Monday denied any ambition to fill the leadership vacuum after the arrest last week Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Ma. Sison by Butch policemen for the killing of two former communist leaders in the Philippines.
Ocampo's statement was issued after National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said that "Ocampo's statements is very authoritative in the CPP-NPA (New People's Army). He could be positioning himself to succeed Joma Sison."
"I have no ambition to replace Professor Sison, if he is indeed the leader of the CPP or lead the revolutionary movement as maliciously stated by Gonzales," said Ocampo.
Ocampo said he is focused on performing his electoral mandate as representative of the party-list group Bayan Muna in the House of Representatives.
"My comment doubting the NPA would attack Dutch nationals is based on my recollection that the National Democratic Front (NDF) submitted to the UN in Geneva an international commitment in writing in 1993 that the NPA would observe international laws of war and international humanitarian law which ban attacks on non-combatants and diplomatic personages," the militant lawmaker added. (Sunnex)
