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by Steve Sweeney
International editor
FOREIGN governments have been urged to delist the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) as a terrorist organisation amid fears that the state plans to use new legislation to crush opposition groups.
The National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) issued the appeal weeks after the CPP and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA), were outlawed under oppressive new anti-terror legislation introduced by the government of President Rodrigo Duterte.
An NDFP statement said: “We denounce this malicious misdesignation of the CPP and NPA.
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