President Rodrigo Duterte likened the peace process to playing a poker game with the release of the prisoners as his “last card”.
The Communist Party of the Philippines would not extend its unilateral ceasefire unless President Rodrigo Duterte ends or suspends the military’s counter-insurgency program called “Oplan Bayanihan.”
A P200 million drug rehabilitation center which will be built at Barangay Malagos by 2017 is seen to yield positive results in the city’s war against illegal drugs.
A peace advocate group here expressed doubt if the the newly-appointed Armed Forces Chief of Staff Brigadier General Eduardo Año would be able to pursue a genuine peace with the communist rebels given his track record of gross human rights violations.
The recent meeting between President Rodrigo Duterte and the leaders of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines yielded positive results, said NDF peace consultant Wilma Tiamzon.
Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza said they are appalled by some sectors attacking them on the delay of the release of political prisoners in the country.
The Communist Party of the Philippines demanded that President Rodrigo Duterte must end the military’s Oplan Bayanihan as the group marked the 100th day of the effectivity of the unilateral declaration for an interim ceasefire issued last Aug. 26 by the CPP Central Committee.
Weeks after the government’s Freedom of Information portal was launched, an anti-Marcos group said it would invoke FOI to request the pertinent documents that approved the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Heroes’ Cemetery.
President Rodrigo Duterte guaranteed to Communist leaders that he will pursue an independent foreign policy and will revoke the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement with the United States.
THE IMAGE Rodrigo R. Duterte projected of his 2016 presidential campaign was that it was one run on a shoestring budget. It supposedly had no donors with vested interests, and that included big businessmen and mining firms.
