{"id":278873,"date":"2020-12-17T02:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=278873"},"modified":"2020-12-17T02:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T07:23:17","slug":"reds-non-declaration-of-holiday-truce-immaterial-afp-spox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/17\/reds-non-declaration-of-holiday-truce-immaterial-afp-spox\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds non-declaration of holiday truce &#8216;immaterial&#8217;: AFP spox"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_239799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-239799\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gen-arevalo-5619-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-239799\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gen-arevalo-5619-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gen-arevalo-5619-a.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gen-arevalo-5619-a-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-239799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AFP spokesperson, Marine Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Whether the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) declares a ceasefire or not during the Yuletide season is &#8220;immaterial&#8221;, a military official said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s immaterial whether the Communist Terrorist Group (CTG) declares a holiday ceasefire or not. They have been consistently and treacherously violating that after all,&#8221; Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson, Marine Maj. Gen. Edgard Arevalo said in a message to reporters late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He was responding to reports saying the CPP will not declare a holiday ceasefire with the government this year.<\/p>\n<p>Arevalo said these pronouncements are much better than hoping that the CPP-NPA will honor its commitment to a ceasefire with the government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s better a barefaced pronouncement such as that than again trust their declaration of a truce hoping that they will honor their word this time,&#8221; Arevalo, who is also the spokesperson, National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF ELCAC) Peace, Law Enforcement, Development and Security (PLEDS) Cluster, added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the CPP urged all NPA units to conduct secret meetings to mark its 52nd founding anniversary on Dec. 26.<\/p>\n<p>The communist terrorists also said they will continue with their harassments during the holiday season since the AFP did not declare a ceasefire this year.<\/p>\n<p>Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Delfin Lorenzana earlier said the CPP-NPA probably opted not to declare their own ceasefire after learning that President Rodrigo R. Duterte is no longer interested in one.<\/p>\n<p>The DND chief added that during ceasefires in past years, the CPP-NPA was known to use the opportunity to resupply, refurbish, regroup, and recruit new members in remote villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Whether the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People&#8217;s Army (CPP-NPA) declares a ceasefire or not during the Yuletide season &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":252600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-priam-nepomuceno","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278873","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=278873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278875,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278873\/revisions\/278875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}