{"id":277953,"date":"2020-12-07T23:25:03","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T04:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277953"},"modified":"2025-01-09T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T19:41:33","slug":"duterte-says-no-ceasefire-with-reds-ever-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/07\/duterte-says-no-ceasefire-with-reds-ever-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte says no ceasefire with Reds \u2018ever again\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThere will be no ceasefire ever again under my term pagka-Presidente (as President). For all intents and purposes, \u2018yung (the) ceasefire is dead,\u201d Duterte said in his televised talk to the people late Monday night. (Photo courtesy of NPA\/Mitchell Maduro via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte said he will not declare a ceasefire \u201cever again\u201d with the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People\u2019s Army-National Democratic Front (CPP-NPA-NDF) for the rest of his term.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be no ceasefire ever again under my term\u00a0pagka-Presidente<\/em>\u00a0(as President). For all intents and purposes,\u00a0\u2018yung<\/em>\u00a0(the) ceasefire is dead,\u201d Duterte said in his televised talk to the people late Monday night.<\/p>\n

Duterte made the remarks four days after the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) said it is not inclined to recommend any truce with the CPP-NPA this holiday season.<\/p>\n

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“The AFP — wishing and longing for a peaceful yuletide season for the Filipino people notwithstanding — will not recommend to the Commander-in-Chief (President Rodrigo Duterte) a holiday ceasefire with the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG),” AFP spokesperson Marine Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said.<\/p>\n

Arevalo noted the communist terrorists have been demonstrating insincerity in previous agreements.<\/p>\n

“This was the AFP\u2019s painful experience where the CTG reneged from their own ceasefire declaration by attacking and killing soldiers on humanitarian and peace and development missions,” Arevalo said.<\/p>\n

Duterte said the request of the CPP and its political wing, the National Democratic Front (NDF), to form a \u201ccoalition government\u201d prompted him to \u201cwalked away\u201d from peace talks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI walked away from the talks because we cannot understand each other. Maybe we were talking in different dialects. I don\u2019t know why. But I just simply cannot understand the way it is being carried by the other side, being played.<\/p>\n

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What was evolving before me was something that it is not acceptable to the Republic of the Philippines,\u00a0lalo na \u2018yang<\/em>\u00a0(especially this) coalition government. No president, no stupid president will allow it. He will get impeached,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said he cannot compromise anything in the government, particularly the supposed power-sharing the CPP-NPA-NDF asked from him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are not supposed to share that power.\u00a0Ako, may sinumpaan ako<\/em>\u00a0(I have an oath of office). Those powers are given to me under the law, only to be exercised unless they are capable of being delegated. I cannot compromise anything in this government. It\u2019s either I will be impeached or the military and the police will shoot me,\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

He criticized the communists for committing offenses like arson, rape and killing soldiers and barangay officials, and for conspiring to overthrow the government.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are serious offenses under the revised penal code,\u201d he said. \u201cAll communists are bad because all of you are conspiring to overthrow the government of the Republic of the Philippines and nobody would allow you, not the military, not the police, and not the majority of all Filipinos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duterte said he will identify the groups which serve as \u201clegal fronts\u201d of the CPP-NPA-NDF before he steps down in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to sort out what we will do to you because you are now criminals and as I have pointed out, we are not only tagging you, that\u2019s a light\u2026 we are identifying you. And we will identify you anytime you want but there will be a time under my end terms. I will name all of you,\u00a0kayong lahat sa<\/em>\u00a0(all of you in the) NDF,\u201d Duterte added.<\/p>\n

In his speech last week, Duterte said the Armed Forces of the Philippines does not engage in red-tagging leftist lawmakers but was actually \u201cidentifying\u201d them as legal fronts.<\/p>\n

He said the AFP is \u201cvery correct\u201d for identifying groups like Bayan, Makabayan, and Gabriela as \u201clegal fronts\u201d of CPP-NPA.<\/p>\n

\u201cItong mga<\/em>\u00a0legal fronts\u00a0ng komunista, lahat \u2018yan<\/em>\u00a0(These legal fronts of the communists. All of them) Makabayan, Bayan\u2026they are all legal fronts, Gabriela. We are not red-tagging you. We are identifying you as members in a grand conspiracy comprising all the legal fronts that you have organized headed by NDF tapos yung (then) New People\u2019s Army at Communist Party of the Philippines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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