By MART D. SAMBALUD
Davao Today
DAVAO City — Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio renewed calls for the New People’s Army to lay down their firearms and stop their offensive operations.
Duterte-Carpio also said she is hopeful to have a “localized peace talks” with the communist rebels in Davao region.
“I have no choice, I am the Mayor of Davao City,” Duterte-Carpio said in a City Information Office dispatch on Tuesday. “I’ll push things that I think can make the city better and one of them is the local peace talks.”
Duterte-Carpio’s statement came following the three simultaneous attacks staged by the rebels last month in Davao.
“I am always open, but we cannot sit down if they continue their offensive operations against the people, against the Armed Forces,” Duterte-Carpio pointed out.
But the National Democratic Front maintained that the government has long been waging an all-out war against “the revolutionary forces and people, despite the existence of the unilateral ceasefire declarations.”
This week, the government peace panel refused to participate in the 5th round of the peace talks in the Netherlands following the order by the Communist Party of the Philippines for the NPA to intensify its offensives vis-a-vis the declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao. (davaotoday.com)
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