MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte sabotaged the peace talks with communist rebels, Jose Maria Sison, chief political consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, said Friday. 360On Thursday, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque announced that Duterte had signed Proclamation 360 ending peace talks that were restarted last year after being scuttled in 2013. "While we agreed to resume peace talks with the aforementioned group and exerted our best efforts to accelerate the signing and implementation of the final peace agreement, the NDF-CPP-NPA has engaged in acts of violence and hostilities," Roque said. READ: Duterte formally terminates peace talks with RedsRoque's announcement came after the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process disclosed Wednesday that all planned meetings with the CPP-NPA-NDFP have been called off. Peace talks had already been called off in July over NPA attacks, including one on a Presidential Security Group convoy passing through Cotabato province.

Source: Philippine Star November 24, 2017 01:21 UTC