DILG won’t ”recommend a ceasefire” with communist rebels

December 9, 2019

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ''will not recommend a ceasefire'' with communist rebels during the Christmas season.

“No. I will not recommend a ceasefire,” Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Ano said in a text message Monday .

Ano urged communist rebels to go down from their camps in the mountains and return to the fold of the law.

“We will provide them all the benefits and opportunities to become productive peaceful citizens,” he said.

Ano was included in an alleged list of government officials which the Communist Party of the Philippines is planning to assassinate.

Other officials on the list are National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr., National Commission on Indigenous Peoples chairman Allen Capuyan and Maj. Gen. Antonio Parlade Jr, deputy chief of the staff for civil military operations of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) ordered its units to reinforce their stations to repel possible attacks by communist rebels in celebration of the CPP's founding anniversary on Dec. 26. DMS