MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine National Police (PNP) on Thursday echoed President Rodrigo Duterte’s pronouncements on the futility of peace talks with the Communist rebels in the wake of the mine blast in Masbate on Sunday that killed a university football player and his cousin.
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Police chief Guillermo Eleazar said peace talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines along with its armed wing New People’s Army and the National Democratic Front CPP-NPA-NDF) would be “pointless” because the group “will never embrace the concept of peace.”
“The PNP is for the attainment of genuine peace in the country but this group will neve…
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