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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to end peace talks with communist rebels on Wednesday, hours after suspected guerrillas wounded five members of the two-vehicle Presidential Security Group (PSG) convoy in an ambush along a national highway in North Cotabato. Aides said Duterte, 72, was not in the convoy when gunmen opened fire on two Presidential Security Group vehicles along a highway on the main southern island of Mindanao, where martial law is in effect. […]
(Eagle News) — Government peace panel chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III announced on Tuesday (July 4) that the government would resume peace talks with the National Democratic Front in August. Bello, who also serves as the Labor Secretary, said they have an “initial understanding” to pursue the fifth round of talks probably in the second or third week of August. He said he talked with NDF peace panel chair Fidel Agcaoili on Sunday and they […]
(Eagle News) — The Philippine government peace negotiators held their ground not to participate in the peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) after the communists’ order to the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels to intensify attacks on government forces after the martial law declaration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dureza and the head of the government negotiating panel, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III, announced Monday morning in Noordwijk aan Zee, […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Communist rebels waging one of the world’s longest-running insurgencies in the Philippines say they are willing to discuss a formal ceasefire proposed by the government in upcoming talks in the Netherlands. The insurgency began in 1968 in the poverty-stricken country, and has claimed an estimated 30,000 lives according to the military. The meeting, starting Sunday, will be the fourth round of talks between the National Democratic Front and Manila, which have […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday directed the military and the police to “wage war” against the New People’s Army rebels after they killed four policemen who were not even combatants but were merely responding to a call to investigate a murder in the area. The President said there is no peace talks as of now. “Wala pang peace talks. It’s totally absent. So, in the meantime, I will also ask the […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — The leader of the Philippines’ communist insurgency has called on President Rodrigo Duterte to revive collapsed peace talks as his rebels launched new attacks. On Saturday, Duterte angrily scrapped talks with communist insurgents aimed at ending their decades-long conflict after both the government and the rebels called off unilateral ceasefires. “Even if the armed conflict between the armed forces of the two parties has resumed, peace negotiations can and must […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte announced the lifting of the ceasefire with the communist rebels effective Friday night (February 3) because of the recent killings of soldiers done by the New People’s Army (NPA) rebels. The President made the announcement during the ceremonial switch-on of the M’lang Solar Powered Irrigation System (MSPIS) first prototype in Barangay Janiuay, M’lang, Cotabato on Friday afternoon. “I tried my best. Pero parang kanta, But my best was […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Philippine communist guerrillas will observe a seven-day truce from Sunday to bolster upcoming peace talks hosted by Norway, the rebels said, urging the Manila government to also order a ceasefire. The Communist Party of the Philippines made the move following President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to free its top leaders on Friday. They are set to fly to Oslo for negotiations aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest insurgencies. “We hope that […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Maoist rebels waging a decades-old insurgency in the Philippines expressed high hopes for peace Monday before talks in Norway next week, with guerrilla leaders set to be freed within days. President Rodrigo Duterte, who won a landslide election victory in May, is seeking a political settlement to one of Asia’s longest insurgencies which has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1969. Five previous presidents had failed in that objective, and […]
