Duterte wants communist insurgency over in 3 years

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:39:41 +0000

President Duterte wants to end the communist insurgency in less than three years of his term, the reason why he ordered government agencies to step the implementation of strategies to put finally lick the problem on the New People’s Army in the countryside.

Police Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac, spokesman of the Philippine National Police, said the President was particularly interested on the rising number of communist rebels who surrendered to the government.

“The President does not want to pass the problem on communist insurgency to the next administration,” said Banac. “That is why he is very serious in making sure that all the strategies are properly implemented to end it. And we share this goal because imagine it is already five decades,” he added.

Banac said the P
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