{"id":138042,"date":"2017-12-11T02:15:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138042"},"modified":"2017-12-11T02:15:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-11T07:15:50","slug":"military-wont-give-in-to-holiday-truce-pleas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/11\/military-wont-give-in-to-holiday-truce-pleas\/","title":{"rendered":"Military won&#8217;t give in to holiday truce pleas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_138050\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138050\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AFP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138050\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AFP.jpg\" alt=\"The military is not inclined to give in to a Christmas truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People's Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) despite calls by some groups, including the Church. (Photo: Armed Forces of the Philippines\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AFP.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AFP-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AFP-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The military is not inclined to give in to a Christmas truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) despite calls by some groups, including the Church. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArmedForcesofthePhilippineRepublic\/photos\/a.136168369876066.29839.136148333211403\/781029932056570\/?type=1&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ArmedForcesofthePhilippineRepublic\/\">Armed Forces of the Philippines\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The military is not inclined to give in to a Christmas truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) despite calls by some groups, including the Church.<\/p>\n<p>This, according to Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) public affairs office chief, Col. Edgard Arevalo late Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AFP supports the wisdom and wise discretion of the CinC (Commander-in-Chief, President Rodrigo Duterte). He has already declared that there will be no unilateral ceasefire this December. The SND (Secretary of National Defense Delfin Lorenzana) has made a similar announcement of his position on the matter,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of continued NPA attacks, Arevalo said they see no difference this Christmas season.<\/p>\n<p>The DND chief earlier said he cannot recommend a &#8220;suspension of military operation&#8221; against as the CPP-NPA-NDF vowed to intensify attacks against military targets in wake of Proclamation 360 that terminated peace talks and negotiations with the latter.<\/p>\n<p>President Duterte signed the proclamation last November 23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The military is not inclined to give in to a Christmas truce with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":138050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[38217,11150,11283,3592,2702],"class_list":["post-138042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-christmas-truce","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines","tag-national-democratic-front","tag-new-peoples-army","tag-philippine-military","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}