{"id":35711,"date":"2014-12-17T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35711"},"modified":"2014-12-17T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:39:06","slug":"ph-communist-rebels-announce-cease-fires-for-christmas-and-popes-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/17\/ph-communist-rebels-announce-cease-fires-for-christmas-and-popes-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"PH communist rebels announce cease fires for Christmas and pope&#8217;s visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22511\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22511\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22511\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg\" alt=\"ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)\" width=\"600\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf.jpg 325w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Abu-Sayyaf-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ABU SAYYAF GROUP (Photo courtesy of the Institute for the Study of Violent Groups)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Philippine communist rebels on Wednesday declared cease-fire periods for the Christmas holidays and for the visit of Pope Francis next month.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party of the Philippines ordered its armed wing, the New People&#8217;s Army, to halt offensives against soldiers and police on Dec. 24-26, Dec. 31-Jan. 1 and during the pope&#8217;s visit on Jan. 15-19.<\/p>\n<p>The military earlier this week announced a month-long cease-fire with the communist rebels through to Jan. 19, but said that operations against Muslim militants will continue.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party said in a statement that the cease-fire for the pope&#8217;s visit is &#8220;an opportunity for religious celebration and to raise outstanding issues such as military abuses and violations of human rights&#8221; and corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The party will mark its 46th founding anniversary on Dec. 26. It launched the armed struggle in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year Marxist insurgency is one of the longest-running in Asia. Talks to end the fighting have stalled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines &#8212; Philippine communist rebels on Wednesday declared cease-fire periods for the Christmas holidays and for the visit of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":22511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711","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=35711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}