In his taped Friday morning public address on the coronavirus, President Duterte blasts the communist rebels again and brings up an old peace proposal they submitted long before the pandemic. COVID19PH
THE NPA, AGAIN. President Rodrigo Duterte holds a meeting with members of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Malago Clubhouse on April 23, 2020. Malacañang photopolice: I might declare martial law, and there will be no turning back,” President Rodrigo said in the first minutes of his recorded public address on the coronavirus that was aired on Friday morning, April 24.
Citing an alleged rebel ambush that killed two Army soldiers in Aurora province on Wednesday, April 22, Duterte scored the NPA for supposedly sabotaging the government’s pandemic relief efforts, as the soldiers were merely facilitating the distribution of social welfare subsidies.At gusto ninyo ipasok muna yung mga dema – ayaw naman ng military. Binigay ko sa military ‘yung papel ninyo. Sabi ng military, ayaw nila. Sabi ko ano, you explain to me bakit.
“I’m calling the Armed Forces to invent something more to innovate so that the soldiers will not be at the mercy of [the NPA],” Duterte said in the speech aired Friday.
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