Duterte to government: Resume peace talks with communist guerrillas
“We cannot go on like this. We cannot fight forever. We cannot kill each other forever. It cannot go on this way forever,” he said.
At some point, Duterte said the government and the communist guerrillas should go back to the negotiating table and talk.
“It is good to talk. At the end of the day, we shall reach a point that we have to talk,” he said.
He added: “There are enemies of the state that you cannot kill. There are atrocities or wars that we cannot afford to be silent about. We have to talk.”
Duterte lamented how the peace talks with the National Democratic Front-Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army have been in the doldrums for sometime, paving the way for the renewed skirmishes between government forces and the insurgents.
“Violence would get us nowhere. If possible, let us just talk. But all means, let us look for avenues to talk,” he said, adding that the government should exert more efforts in reopening channels for peace negotiations with the guerrillas.
Duterte said the insurgents have intensified their attacks against military and police installations as well as private companies in
“And I understand the AFP (Armed Forces of the
Duterte said the continued rampage of the NPA rebels in
“These rebels, I understand, do not act on their own but follow the command of their higher-ups. And this is the more reason for the peace talks to be revived,” he said.
In their latest attack last Friday night, NPA guerrillas stormed the Rio Vista Agri Venture farms of Marsman Drysdale Corp. in Maco,
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