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President Rodrigo Duterte with members of the Government of the Philippines and National Democratic Front peace panels following their meeting in Malacañang on September 26, 2016. (Malacañang file photo)

DOJ seeks cancellation of temporary liberty to NDFP consultants

The Department on Justice (DOJ) wants the cancellation of the temporary liberty granted by the ?courts to detained National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leaders after the talks between them and the government fell in limbo.

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Read more about the article Cancel bail for NDF consultants, DOJ urges court
NDFP PEACE CONSULTANTS. National Democratic Front peace consultants discuss the contentious issues of the socio-economic reforms during a media forum at the NDF Monitoring Office in Cubao, Quezon City on September 23. From left: Kennedy Bangibang, Adel Silva, Ruben Saluta, Alan Jazmines, Loida Magpatoc, Prof. Ed Villegas, Renato Baleros and Jaime Soledad. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

Cancel bail for NDF consultants, DOJ urges court

The Department of Justice (DOJ) wants the cancellation of the temporary liberty granted by courts to detained National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) consultants and Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) leaders after the talks between them and the government did not push through.

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Read more about the article Duterte’s ‘Oplan Kapayapaan’ doomed to fail, CPP claims
SHOW OF FORCE. Several soldiers and a few personnel carriers stay along the stretch of Davao City's San Pedro Street on Monday, June 12 while the Independence Day flag raising ceremony is being held at the Rizal Park here. Military ground vehicles have become a mainstay in the city's center, with some locals taking photos beside the armored vehicles since President Rodrigo Duterte declared the whole island of Mindanao under the state of Martial Law on May 23. (Paulo C. Rizal/davaotoday.com)

Duterte’s ‘Oplan Kapayapaan’ doomed to fail, CPP claims

"Amid the relentless taunting of the military and the launching of heightening attacks against the New People?s Army, the Communist Party of the Philippines asserted that the Duterte regime?s counterinsurgency program ? Oplan Kapayapaan ? is doomed to fail."

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Read more about the article “Salvaging” the GRP-NDFP peace talks
PEACE ADVOCATES. Panel speakers during the Mindanao Peace Forum held at the Homitori Inn in Davao City on Wednesday, March 15 share light moments with the media and the participants who are mostly religious leaders. (From left to right) Fr. Rex Reyes, convener of the Philippine Ecumenical Peace Platform; Atty. Antonio Arellano, government peace panel member; Bishop Felixberto Calang, convener of the Sowing the Seeds of Peace Movement; Satur Ocampo, independent cooperator for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines peace panel; and Sr. Luz Mallo of the Sisters Association of Mindanao. (Zea Io Ming C. Capistrano/davaotoday.com)

“Salvaging” the GRP-NDFP peace talks

During the Marcos Dictatorship, the word “salvage” or “salbids” translated into “extrajudicial killing.”

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