Cordillera police play down CPLA threat to break peace

CAMP DANGWA, Ben­guet—The Cordillera police on Friday played down the threat of a faction of the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army (CPLA) that it would resume its armed struggle, because the government failed to help establish an autonomous Cordillera region.

This developed as Chief Supt. Rowland Albano, the Cordillera chief of police, in an interview, stressed that those who claimed to have returned the Mount Data peace tokens were never a party to the signing of the 1987 peace agreement between the Aquino administration and the CPLA, which was then led by slain rebel priest Conrado Balweg.