Gibo: No holiday truce with 'Jurassic' Reds

Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro Jr. has rejected the idea of implementing another holiday truce with the New People's Army (NPA) during the holiday season.

- By MICHAEL PUNONGBAYAN

According to him, such an agreement will only allow what the military and the government now consider a communist terrorist group the chance to appear relevant.

"Any ceasefire with the CPP-NPA-NDF is a ceasefire against terrorists and criminals," Teodoro said in a statement posted on the Facebook page of the Presidential Communications Office, referring to the Communist Party of the Philippines and National Democratic Front.

"It is a last-ditch measure of a Jurassic group to find relevance in the national political ecosystem," the defense chief declared.