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DOJ The Department of Justice (DOJ) will no longer appeal the Manila regional trial court’s (RTC) ruling which declared that the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), are not terrorist organizations. Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin C. Remul
The legal battle over the case seeking to label the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing New People's Army is far from over as the government still has available legal remedies it can tap, Malacañang said Friday.
The ruling by Judge Marlo Magdoza-Malagar stated that the New People’s Army used violence as a means rather than an end.
“It is important to underscore how the decision concluded that the CPP and NPA are not terrorists, rather, are waging armed resistance with clear political aims and directs its attacks, not against civilians, but against agents of the reactionary state represented by the government of the Republic of the Philippines."
Efforts on the part of the present government to counter insurgency should include respect for the right to dissent, to due process and to the rule of law.