Reuters, 16/05 13:37 CET
DAVAO, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippines
President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday he would pursue peace
talks with Marxist guerrillas and as an olive branch would offer
government roles to the
Communist Party of the Philippines, including
its exiled founder.
The mayor and self-styled sheriff of Davao City said it was time to put an end to hostilities with the CPP
and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, which has been embroiled in
decades of on-off fighting with government troops in the south and east
of the country that has killed 40,000 people.
Duterte’s peace offer would include a ministerial post to Jose Maria Sison, the CPP figurehead who lives in the Netherlands and was once listed by the United States as a “person supporting terrorism”.
“I offer my hand in peace to Sison and to others and we
can talk,” Duterte told a news conference in Davao, where he has
remained since a May 9 election for which an unofficial vote count shows
him a clear winner.
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Source: Euronews
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