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MAYOR'S CHOICE. Mayor Rodrigo Duterte casts his vote in Daniel R. Aguinaldo National High School around 2 pm. He did not divulge his candidate to the media as he said the barangay polls are supposed to be non-partisan. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)

Rody Duterte to demand peace as presidential candidate

While saying he is not interested in the 2016 presidential race, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte makes a doublespeak when he said he could consult communists and other rebel groups.

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Read more about the article Conflict wouldn’t have lasted long, and could have saved lives, in Zamboanga City
A government soldier takes ready aim at a Zamboanga civilian while his comrade holds the latter down. The person came out of Lustre Street where government troops were pursuing off MNLF rebels. (davaotoday.com photo by John Rizle L. Saligumba)

Conflict wouldn’t have lasted long, and could have saved lives, in Zamboanga City

Prof. Ali Ayub, the secretary-general of the National Ulama Conference of the Philippines in the Zambasulta Region said his group and civil society organizations offered viable options to the Crisis Management Committee to break the standoff sooner between the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) followers of Chairman Nur Misuari, and state security forces in Zamboanga.

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NDF Mindanao scores Misuari’s “ambition”, Aquino’s “brutality”

The NDF spokesperson also said the Moro struggle would not end with the recent armed conflict, pointing out that the “(t)he reactionary regime’s divide-and-rule tactic would merely delay the fruition of the true aspirations of the Moro people.” “We are most certain that, should the GPH succeed to encumber one group, others would rise in its place to continue the struggle to resolve the fundamental problems of the Moro people,” Ka Oris aid.

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It was military strike since day One — Aquino

There is yet no ceasefire in place, consistent with what President Benigno Aquino III said yesterday that since Day One, the government is bent on launching military operations. But he clarified later that the primary objective of the military operations is the "unnecessary loss of lives."

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