{"id":166339,"date":"2018-06-06T03:22:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=166339"},"modified":"2018-06-06T03:22:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:22:41","slug":"duterte-wont-allow-ph-soldiers-to-be-massacred-while-fighting-for-wps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/06\/06\/duterte-wont-allow-ph-soldiers-to-be-massacred-while-fighting-for-wps\/","title":{"rendered":"Duterte won\u2019t allow PH soldiers to be \u2018massacred\u2019 while fighting for WPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sending the Philippine forces to West Philippine Sea to counter China\u2019s aggressive militarization could mean \u201csuicide\u201d and they are not ready for such.<\/p>\n<p>President Rodrigo Duterte said this\u00a0on Tuesday\u00a0night upon his arrival from a three-day official trip to South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I do that, either I am inviting trouble within my country or the military and police will oust me. They are not prepared to go into suicide,\u201d he said, adding it is certain that \u201cthey would rather dispense him rather than lose their soldiers unnecessarily and needlessly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Going into war with China for a \u201csimple adventurism\u201d will end up finishing off Filipino soldiers, Duterte said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford a war at this time because it will result in a massacre. I am not prepared to lose my soldiers and policeman for a simple adventurism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte also said that if the government forces die fighting over the West Philippine Sea, the country would have no one else to blame but him and that Filipinos will execute him at Luneta.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(DAILY NEWS ROUND UP FOR 06\/ 06 \/18)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending the Philippine forces to West Philippine Sea to counter China\u2019s aggressive militarization could mean \u201csuicide\u201d and they are not &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":114184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","mauthors-ro-angelica-equio","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166339","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=166339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}