These include the automatic cancellation of bail once peace negotiations are terminated. The attack of the members of the NPA, the CPP’s armed wing, resulted in the wounding of four PSG officers. Several NDF consultants were released on bail ahead of the resumption of peace negotiations last year. Duterte, the CPP claimed, “continues to lay the foundations for authoritarian rule under US imperialist tutelage.”“He is completely intoxicated with martial law powers. Tempered by its experience in waging people’s war, the NPA is ever capable of resisting martial law and strengthening itself,” it claimed.

Source: Manila Times July 20, 2017 16:30 UTC