{"id":195798,"date":"2018-12-30T01:55:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=195798"},"modified":"2018-12-30T01:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T06:56:50","slug":"cpp-npa-members-stragglers-with-no-direction-esperon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/12\/30\/cpp-npa-members-stragglers-with-no-direction-esperon\/","title":{"rendered":"CPP-NPA members, &#8216;stragglers with no direction&#8217;: Esperon"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_195800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-195800\" style=\"width: 744px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/screen-shot-2018-12-30-at-20006-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-195800\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/screen-shot-2018-12-30-at-20006-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/screen-shot-2018-12-30-at-20006-pm.png 744w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/screen-shot-2018-12-30-at-20006-pm-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-195800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Screenshot of the video interview uploaded in PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar&#8217;s Facebook page (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 The members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) are &#8216;stragglers&#8217; whose ideology does not fit in the Philippines, National Security Adviser (NSA) Secretary Hermogenes Esperon said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ang Communist Party at New People&#8217;s Army ay talagang nagsimula sa kasinungalingan at panggigipit at mga illegal na activities<\/em>\u00a0(The CPP-NPA really started in deceit, extortion, and illegal activities),&#8221; Esperon said in an interview posted by Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Secretary Martin Andanar on Facebook on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In the video interview, Esperon enumerated the crimes which the CPP-NPA has been involved, which included the 1971 Plaza Miranda bombing, extortion from local businessmen and politicians, mass murder of comrades, and violation of indigenous peoples\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>He said the CPP-NPA cannot deny these as their own comrades confessed the organization&#8217;s involvement in these crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Ngayon gising na gising na ang ating mga katutubo lalo na diyan sa Mindanao, talagang umaalma na sila, alam na nila yung ginagawang tunay ng New People&#8217;s Army at Communist Party of the Philippines<\/em>\u00a0(The indigenous peoples, especially those in Mindanao, their eyes have now been opened, they now resist as they now know the real doings of the NPA and CPP),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2014 The members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) are &#8216;stragglers&#8217; whose ideology does &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":195800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195798","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}