[AA.TR] President Rodrigo Duterte has scrapped peace talks with communist rebels after they allegedly conducted a series of attacks on security forces.
"Let us renew the fighting for another 50 years. It's what you want," Duterte was quoted as saying by the Rappler at Davos City investment forum on Friday.
The backchannel talks between the government and Communist Party of Philippines (CPP) were supposed to resume within the next few days.
Previously, the talks were suspended in May after the president imposed martial law in the southern island of Mindanao following the siege laid by the ISIS-linked Maute group in Marawi City.
On Thursday, the president visited the Marawi City and told soldiers that New People’s Army (NPA), armed wing of the CPP, would be their next target.
"They owe us a lot. I no longer want to talk to them. They have killed many of my troops," Duterte told soldiers.
His announcement came after five members of his Presidential Security Group (PSG) were maimed in an attack claimed by the NPA in North Cotabato province Wednesday.
Also, police chief of Guihulngan city in Negros Oriental province and four others were killed, in an attack allegedly staged by suspected communist rebels Friday.
According to a report by inquirer, the coppers responded to a call from a provincial board member, who claimed that gunnies tried to ambush him and his driver.
The rebels attacked the responding coppers and a firefight ensued between them.
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] Two persons went missing when Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... gunnies stormed a sawmill in Maluso, Basilan ...Basilan is a rugged, jungle-covered island in the southern Philippines. It is a known stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, bandidos, and maybe even orcs. Most people with any sense travel with armed escorts... on Thursday, authorities said Friday.
Maluso Mayor Hanie Bud told the Inquirer that Dodong Divinagracia, 50; and his son, Ily, 25, were manning the sawmill when Abu Sayyaf gunnies came and set the place on fire.
"We are waiting for updates as the military and barangay (village) officials concerned are still in the area," Bud said.
Supt. Nickson Muksan, the Basilan police chief, said a civilian had reported that the gunnies included Abu Sayyaf members Pasil Bayali and a certain Otoh Dobol and that the Divinagracias were taken as hostages.
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[AA.TR] President Rodrigo Duterte has scrapped peace talks with communist rebels after they allegedly conducted a series of attacks on security forces.
