Amnesty granted to communists

Wed, 24 Apr 1996 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): The government yesterday granted amnesty to 112 dissidents, including communist guerrillas and right-wing military and police rebels in the southern Philippines, the official Philippine News Agency (PNA) reported.

The group includes eight army officers who mutinied in the southern city of Cagayan de Oro in 1990 and 78 former members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed group, the New People's Army, PNA said, quoting Alvin Calingin, the Cagayan de Oro chairman of the local amnesty board.

PNA did not identify the other 26 who received amnesty.

Calingin said the grant means these people are now free from "criminal liability for past offenses."

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