{"id":152920,"date":"2018-02-14T23:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T04:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=152920"},"modified":"2018-02-14T23:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T04:44:00","slug":"duterte-to-pay-soldiers-p25k-for-every-npa-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/02\/14\/duterte-to-pay-soldiers-p25k-for-every-npa-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte to pay soldiers P25K for every NPA killed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Duterte (JOEY DALUMPINES\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the second time, the President reacted to Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria \u201cJoma\u201d Sison\u2019s statement on killing soldiers a day, this time, with a comeback.<\/p>\n

\u201cAng sabi ko rin sa lahat <\/em>(I told everyone), \u2018You kill —\u2018 Tinataasan ko na ngayon <\/em>(I raised it). \u2018You kill an NPA today and I\u2019ll pay you 25 000,\u2019\u201d President Rodrigo Duterte said in a speech during his private meeting in Cebu City on February 13.<\/p>\n

Duterte also said that he was computing if this \u2018war\u2019 versus the rebels reaches four years, it will be expensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cKung bayaran ko na lang \u2018yung buhay na<\/em> (If I just pay the life with) 25 000, makamura ako<\/em> (I can save) by about 47 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Duterte also cited the Citizen Armed Force Geographical Unit (CAFGU) in which when a member surrendered, their firearms are also surrendered and marked for liquidation.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, ngayon, kung hindi ko rin ganunin, wala nang mag<\/em>-surrender. \u2018Di walang katapusan ang problema ko. Kaya sabi ko, tandaan ko kayo<\/em>. (Now, if I do not do that, no one will surrender. That is why I said, I will remember you). Now I\u2019m placing a premium. Sige<\/em>, 25 000. Magkugi ka la\u2019g kamang diha sa lasang, maka-igo gyud ka\u2019g usa. Igo man gani nimo ang langgam ngadto sa taas, eh kana pa.<\/em> Kadako ana’g ulo<\/em> (If you work really hard to crawl across the forest, you will surely be able to shoot one. If you can shoot a bird above you, then how much more about an [NPA] whose head is so big?),\u201d Duterte said in mixed Tagalog and Bisaya.<\/p>\n

He further called the NPA rebels \u2018boastful\u2019 and criticized them for \u2018leaving their families\u2019 to treat Sison like a \u2018god.\u2019<\/p>\n

The President was talking about the \u2018heartaches\u2019 that he is facing from his critics, when he remembered Sison\u2019s statement last week saying, \u201cThe NPA (New People\u2019s Army) in 17 regions has actually the capacity of knocking out at least one AFP (Armed Forces of the Philippines) soldier every day per region. That eliminates at least 510 enemy troops or some five companies every month nationwide.\u201d<\/p>\n

This was actually the second time for Duterte to react to the same statement, as he ordered the military to kill a ratio of five NPA rebels for every AFP soldier killed last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the second time, the President reacted to Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria \u201cJoma\u201d Sison\u2019s statement …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[3244,46655,11150,36331,3592,14387],"class_list":["post-152920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-armed-forces-of-the-philippines","tag-citizen-armed-force-geographical-unit","tag-communist-party-of-the-philippines","tag-jose-maria-joma-sison","tag-new-peoples-army","tag-rodrigo-roa-duterte","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}