Duterte flip-flops, opens door to peace with Reds

By RALPH VILLANUEVA

Apr 13, 2019 12:09 am

ALMOST a month after declaring a “permanent” end to peace talks with communist rebels, President Rodrigo Duterte said he was not fully shutting the door on the peace negotiations with members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

This photo taken on July 30, 2017 shows guerrillas of the New People's Army resting among bushes in the Sierra Madre mountain range, located east of Manila. AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

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