Philippine Communist Party Chief Jose Maria Sison Dies In Exile At 83

By Jeoffrey Maitem and Jojo Rinoza

Jose Maria Sison, the self-exiled leader of the long-running communist insurgency in the Philippines, died Friday night in the Netherlands. He was 83.

Sison had founded the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which has been waging a Maoist rebellion against Manila since 1969, one of...