The blinking game

A unilateral ceasefire with local communists that had been declared by the Duterte administration ended before it could even get started. This was because an NPA band attacked a government CAFGU unit that was obeying their commanders’ SOMO (suspension of military operations) order.

It seemed that there would be hell to pay, to quote from President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent warning to crooks and criminals in and out of the government.That is for what the military called a “golden opportunity” missed for peace to finally reign in the country after more than four decades of armed fighting between the New People’s Army (NPA) and the past six administrations.