Military goes ‘full alert’ on CPP anniversary

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) went on full alert on Tuesday for possible attacks coming from the New People’s Army (NPA), with its umbrella organization, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), celebrating its 49th founding anniversary amid a Christmas ceasefire declared by both sides last week.

Col. Edgard Arevalo, AFP spokesman, said the celebration of CPP’s anniversary was “usually accompanied” by armed attacks against government forces, which he described as to something that reflects “the CPP-NPA’s true color” as a criminal organization void of any ideology.”