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Communist Party mobilizes allies to help ‘Maring’ victims, offers ceasefire
By Delfin T. Mallari Jr. Inquirer Southern Luzon
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LUCENA CITY—The Communist Party of the Philippines has ordered
the revolutionary forces in calamity areas to help typhoon victims.
The CPP in a statement issued Wednesday evening also left the
decision to New People’s Army rebels in storm-ravaged areas in National
Capital Region and in the Southern Tagalog, Central Luzon and Northern
Luzon regions whether to declare temporary ceasefire for an unhampered
delivery of relief goods.
“It is within the prerogative of the leading committees of the
CPP in the regions and commands of the NPA to determine the necessity of
declaring temporary ceasefires in their respective areas,” the CPP
said.
In return, the communist also demanded the temporary cessation of military attacks against NPA rebels.
“The CPP demands that the AFP cease Oplan Bayanihan suppression
operations in order to allow local units of the NPA, local branches of
the CPP and people’s organizations to carry out relief and
rehabilitation efforts,” the CPP said.
The CPP declared that all members and branches of the CPP, as
well as all NPA units in affected areas have been instructed to organize
and carry out relief and rehabilitation efforts to assist typhoon
victims whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed or despoiled in
days of rain and floods.
The CPP also urged all its allies and sympathizers to extend
support to mass organizations carrying out operations directly in the
affected areas.
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