As part of his heightened crackdown on communist insurgency in the country, President Rodrigo Duterte is bent on offering monetary rewards to soldiers for killing New People’s Army (NPA) members, a Palace official said.
In a television interview, Presidential Communications Secretary Martin Andanar said Duterte was “serious” about the bounty offer, saying this was part of a “psy-war” following the pronouncement of Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison that their 50 guerilla fronts would kill one soldier a day.
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