MANILA, Philippines — “The burden of proof is on you,” Sen. Panfilo Lacson told alleged former rebels presented by the security sector in a Senate hearing as witnesses linking some lawmakers to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
These lawmakers being linked to the CPP are members of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives.
“You’re saying they are members of the CPP. Your contention is they are members of the CPP, and they don’t want to admit it? Ang burden of proof is on you. How will you prove that they are members of the CPP,” Lacson, speaking partly in Filipino, told Noel “Ka Efren” Legaspi, a former deputy regional secretary of the CPP in Mindana…
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