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| Benigno Aquino III (Image: Wiki Commons) |
By Kristian Javier
MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Panfilo Lacson said on Monday that the arrest order made by the communist party's political arm against former President Benigno Aquino III is illegal.
Lacson said that only the court of law of the Philippines, and not the National Democratic Front, is authorized to give out any form of penalty against anyone in violation of the law.
"Anybody else is unauthorized and therefore illegal," Lacson said in a statement on Monday.
He also said that anyone who commits such an act should be made criminally liable.
On Saturday, the NDF's Southern Mindanao branch sought the former president's "arrest" and a trial before a "people's court" after accusing him of human rights violations during the bloody dispersal of farmers in 2016. About 6,000 farmers, three of whom died in the violence, were protesting the lack of government aid despite the harsh El Niño weather phenomenon last year in Kidapawan.
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