The yuletide truce appears to be holding with the absence of
any insurgency-related incident in the past four days, since the suspension of
military operations, both by government forces and the New People's Army
started midnight of December 23.
The Communist Party of the Philippines
Col. Francisco Delfin, 303rd Infantry Brigade commander,
said yesterday that he has not monitored any violent incident in the Negros
Island Region.
Senior Supt. Samuel Nacion, officer-in-charge of the Negros
Occidental Police Provincial Office, also reported that he has not monitored
any incident of indiscriminate firing, or victims of firecrackers' blasts.
Nacion said he hopes that Negrenses will celebrate the New
Year's eve peacefully.
The Suspension of Offensive Police Operations (SOPO) of the
PNP also took effect December 23 and will end January 1 next year. The yuletide
truce of the AFP and CPP-NPA, respectively, will end on Jan. 3, 2016.
It was, however, clarified that SOPO does not cover normal
law enforcement operations, including the service of arrest warrants.
While the Army's 3rd Infantry Division will suspend all
deliberate offensive military operations, it will continue to be present in the
communities by maintaining its security patrols to protect the civilian
populace, government and private infrastructure, and military camps and
detachments, to maintain peace and security in the area, its spokesman, Maj.
Rey Tiongson, said.
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