Palace: Corpuz’ terrorist accusation not a witch hunt on UN rapporteurs 28 SHARES Share it! “To begin with, the CPP-NPA had already been declared a terrorist group by the US State Department and by the European Union. This move, therefore, only reinforces the classification that the CPP-NPA is a terrorist group,” Roque said Saturday afternoon. Malacañang had called out the two Filipino UN special rapporteurs to stop using their posts to embarrass the Duterte administration before the international community. “Both special rapporteurs should be more circumspect on their statements given that they were elected to their post upon recommendation of the former administration.

Source: Manila Bulletin March 10, 2018 07:18 UTC