A church-based group on Friday condemned the planned resurgence of the government’s bloody “war on drugs” after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that police drug operatives would continue his anti-illegal drug campaign.
Following the beheading of German national Juergen Kantner on Sunday by the Abu Sayyaf Group in Sulu, the Department of National Defense has vowed once again to go after the ASG with the "full force of the law.”
The Philippine National Police has challenged the New York-based watchdog Human Rights Watch to pr?esent evidence, affidavits, and file the appropriate cases against erring policemen, if allegations ?of planting evidence were true.
The New People’s Army in Southern Mindanao emphasized that although it welcomed the talks with Mayor Sara Duterte, it stands by the national leadership of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines as the negotiating entity in the peace process.
The ?Bureau of Fire Protection ?has already recorded 54 fire incidents in just two months this year.