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Says it will file disqualification cases against candidates supporting communist rebels (Eagle News) — The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) warned all candidates in the 2022 national and local elections not to give money to communist rebels when they start their campaigns for next year’s polls. In a statement, the DILG said that paying “extortion money” to New People’s Army rebels and giving support money to the Communist Party of the […]
(Eagle News) — Philippine National Police chief Guillermo Eleazar urged Communist rebels to cease their attacks if they truly regret the deaths of innocent people they were responsible for. Eleazar made the statement after the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, declared “deep remorse” for the “untimely and unnecessary” deaths of Far Eastern University football player Kieth Absalon and his cousin Nolven Absalon after a landmine an NPA […]
ATC also gives 10 alleged members of local terrorist groups the designation (Eagle News) — The Anti-Terrorism Council has designated 19 ranking members of the Communist Party of the Philippines as terrorists. A list of those covered by the designation and released by the government on Thursday, May 13, included CPP founder Jose Maria Sison, Vicente Ladlad, Jorge Madlos, Adelberto Silva, Rey Casambre, Rafael Baylosis, and Wilma and Benito Tiamzon. The government said the designation […]
(Eagle News) — Seventeen members of the Commmunist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army recently surrendered to the government, and turned over their firearms, several improvised explosive devices (EID) and ammunition. In return, they were given P60,000 each in cash and livelihood assistance to start a new life with their families as part of mainstream society. Major Gen. Andres Centino, commanding general of the Philippine Army’s 4th Infantry Division, said that the CPP-NPA had […]
(Eagle news) — President Rodrigo Duterte said that he would no longer consider holding “peace talks” with the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) because of the New People’s Army (NPA) attacks done on soldiers who were simply accompanying government workers delivering food any money amid the COVID-19 crisis. “There is no more peace talks to talk about,” Duterte said on Monday, April 27, during a late night press briefing in Malacanang. “It is […]
(Eagle News)–The Communist Party of the Philippines has declared a unilateral ceasefire from March 26 until April 15. The CPP made the announcement “upon the recommendation of the Negotiating Panel of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP), by way of direct response to the call of UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for a global ceasefire between warring parties for the common purpose of fighting the Covid-19 pandemic..” Earlier, CPP founder Jose Maria Sison […]
(Eagle News)–The Palace on Tuesday, March 24, welcomed Communist Party of the Philippines’ founder Jose Maria Sison’s recommendation for a ceasefire amid the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. “The recommendation of Mr. Jose Ma. Sison, founding chairperson of the Communist Party of the Philippines, to issue a declaration of a ceasefire addressed to the New People’s Army purportedly in response to the call of the United Nations Secretary General for a global armistice, is a positive […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has declared a unilateral ceasefire against the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army-National Democratic Front, the Palace said on Wednesday, March 18. According to Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, the unilateral ceasefire, which will be effective at midnight of March 19 to April 15, was in view of the imposition of the enhanced community quarantine on Luzon to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019. “The President has […]
(Eagle News) — A suspected high-ranking New People’s Army official was arrested in Pampanga on Tuesday, Feb. 18. The Philippine National Police said Rodolfo Canda Salas, 72, also known as Commander Bilog, was arrested by virtue of a warrant of arrest for murder issued by Manila Regional Trial Court Branch 32 Presiding Judge Honorable Thelma Bunyi-Medina. The warrant was in connection with the 2006 discovery of a mass grave in Inopacan, Leyte. The grave supposedly […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte has reiterated his proposal for Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison to come home from The Netherlands where he is in exile to talk. In a televised press conference in Malacanang on the 51st anniversary of the CPP, Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo said the President in particular dared Sison to have a “one-on-one talk” with the chief executive, with “no government panel involved, no panel on […]
(Eagle News) — The Communist Party of the Philippines Jose Maria Sison has founded has become “insignificant” in the country, and will soon die a “natural death.” This is according to Brigadier General Edgard Arevalo, spokesperson of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, who issued a statement that coincided with the CPP’s 51st anniversary on Thursday, Dec. 26. “The CPP that Mr (Sison) founded has lost relevance in a world that has rejected communism. It […]
(Eagle News)–Communist Party of the Philippines founder Jose Maria Sison on Friday, Dec. 20, denied the New People’s Army had a “hit list,” as claimed by the government. In a statement, Sison said National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr.’s “hype of an alleged ‘NPA hit list’ only aims to sow intrigue in order to sabotage the planned resumption of formal peace talks.” He said it was in fact the military and the police “who keep […]
