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If our President will consult you, what appropriate charge or charges will you

recommend to be filed against the rebels? Will you recommend to him the filing of violation of Human Security Act against the rebels? E plain with legal !ustification" Answer: I would recommend the filing of a case for violation of RA9732 or the Human Security Act of 2007 for two reasons! "irst the facts of the case are so clear that the same would fall under RA9732! Secondly RA9732 #rovides for a more severe #enalty which in my o#inion is $ust commensurate to the damage done %y these &'(" re%els to the #eo#le of )am%oanga in #articular and to the whole *hili##ine nation in general! According to RA9732 any #erson who commits an act #unisha%le under any of those felonies enumerated in Section 3 of the same statute thereby sowing and creating a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace, in order to coerce the government to give in to an unlawful demand shall be guilty of the crime of terrorism. +ne of those felonies enumerated is Re%ellion! Rebellion is committed by rising publicly and taking arms against the Government for the purpose of removing from the allegiance to said Government or its laws, the territory of the Republic of the Philippines or any part thereof. ,his is e-actly what the &'(" re%els did! ,here %eing re%ellion and this re%ellion having created a condition of widespread and extraordinary fear and panic among the populace the crime of terrorism e-ists and the case falls under RA9732! ,he #enalty for re%ellion is reclusion #er#etua which is #ardona%le after 30 years of im#risonment unless %y reason of the conduct of the convict or for some other cause he is considered %y the *resident as unworthy of #ardon! ,errorism under RA9732 is #enali.ed with forty /001 years of im#risonment without the %enefit of #arole as #rovided for under Act 'o! 0203 otherwise 3nown as the Indeterminate Sentence (aw as amended! Indeed RA9732 #rovides for a more severe #enalty for the crime committed and ta3ing into consideration the e-tent of the damage in$ury and destruction %rought a%out %y the &'(" ta3ing arms in )am%oanga the #enalty #rovided %y RA9732 is the more a##ro#riate #enalty that must %e im#osed!