Joma Sison, NPA founder, is dead

Jose Maria Canlas Sison, or more known as Joma Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder died Friday night, Dec. 16 (Philippine time). He was 83.

In self-exile in The Netherlands, Sison reportedluy died at 8:40 p.m. in an undisclosed hospital. He was rushed and confined to the hospital two weeks ago, the Communist Party of the Philippiens said in a statement, without revealing the cause of his death.