{"id":141013,"date":"2017-12-21T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T04:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=141013"},"modified":"2017-12-21T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T04:27:08","slug":"reds-to-declare-holiday-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/21\/reds-to-declare-holiday-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds to declare holiday truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141035\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jose-Maria-Sison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141035\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jose-Maria-Sison.jpg\" alt=\"According to Jose Maria Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman, the declaration of the ceasefire will be formally announced soon. (Photo: Jose Maria Sison\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jose-Maria-Sison.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jose-Maria-Sison-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Jose-Maria-Sison-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">According to Jose Maria Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman, the declaration of the ceasefire will be formally announced soon. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/68639986933\/photos\/a.10152268285821934.1073741826.68639986933\/10152268286406934\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Jose-Maria-Sison-68639986933\/\">Jose Maria Sison\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the suspension of military operations (SOMO) by President Rodrigo Duterte for the holidays, the communist New People\u2019s Army (NPA) will also declare a truce to allow Filipinos a peaceful Christmas celebration.<\/p>\n<p>According to Jose Maria Sison, Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman, the declaration of the ceasefire will be formally announced soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Malamang lalabas\u00a0<\/em>(It will probably come out) this morning <em>ang<\/em> (the) ceasefire declaration <em>ng<\/em> (of) CPP <em>at<\/em> (and) NPA,&#8221; Sison was quoted as saying in a Rappler report on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The National Democratic Front (NDF), the group that represents the CPP and NPA in negotiations with the Philippine government, recommended the truce.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is mainly in honor of and for the benefit of the people in connection with the holidays and the CPP 49th anniversary,&#8221; Sison added.<\/p>\n<p>The President earlier declared a holiday ceasefire with the reds in defiance to previous statements and recommendations by some of his cabinet members.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque said the Christmas season \u2018holds a special place in the hearts of the countrymen\u2019 and it would be best to stand together as one nation in aspiring for peace during the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unilateral ceasefire would lessen the apprehension of the public this Christmas season. We expect that the CPP-NPA-NDFP (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People\u2019s Army- National Democratic Front of the Philippines) would do a similar gesture of goodwill,\u201d Roque said.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine government announced on Thursday the specified dates for its unilateral ceasefire with communist rebels.<\/p>\n<p>The truce takes effect from 6 p.m. on December 23 to 11:59 p.m. on December 26, and the same hours on December 30 to January 2, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the suspension of military operations (SOMO) by President Rodrigo Duterte for the holidays, the communist New People\u2019s Army (NPA) &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":141035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[11150,39997,11249,11283,3592,13135],"class_list":["post-141013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines","tag-holiday-ceasefire","tag-jose-maria-sison","tag-national-democratic-front","tag-new-peoples-army","tag-president-rodrigo-duterte","mauthors-joanna-belle-deala","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141013","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=141013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}