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MANILA, Philippines – There will be no ceasefire with communist rebels during the Christmas season this year, or “never again”, during this administration, President Rodrigo Duterte said Monday.
“There will never be a ceasefire again under my term as president. For all intents and purposes, the ceasefire is dead, ”he said during his weekly address on the nation.
Previously, the Armed Forces of the Philippines recommended to the president not to declare a suspension of military operations with the New People’s Army (NPA).
AFP spokesman Major General Edgard Arévalo said that the NPA, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), showed “an inability for sincerity and for being unfaithful to a pact … many times in the past. “.
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