SunStar
+ December 11, 2020 THE Cordillera Peoples Alliance (CPA) has sent an open letter to Mountain Province after the group was declared persona non grata in the province.
Beverly Litdog Longid of the CPA advisory council said the organization wishes to take exception to the request of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)-Mountain Province director directed to the Municipal Mayor of Sagada to declare CPA as persona non-grata in the municipality.
“We hope that the DILG provincial director limited such directive to my hometown and not to all municipal mayors of Mountain Province. This request, we believe, is based on the unfounded branding of the Cordillera Peoples’ Alliance as a front organization of the CPP-NPA-NDFP (Communist Party of the Philippines-New People s Army-National Democratic Front of the Philippines), which puts in real danger the lives and safety of innocent civilians. A well-calculated but irresponsible ploy to make loc