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MEANWHILE, the communists lied about observing a holiday truce even after President Rodrigo Duterte had declared a full-scale war on the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) and its armed wing, the New People’s Army (NPA). According to CPP founder Jose Ma. Sison, “it is to the interest of the people, the NPA and other revolutionary forces that there be the traditional holiday ceasefire.”