{"id":182264,"date":"2018-09-20T05:11:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=182264"},"modified":"2018-09-20T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T09:11:07","slug":"ph-winning-war-vs-reds-duterte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/20\/ph-winning-war-vs-reds-duterte\/","title":{"rendered":"PH \u2018winning the war\u2019 vs. Reds: Duterte"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_181156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-181156\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-181156\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/20180908-PRRD_ARRIVAL3-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-181156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in his arrival speech at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City on September 8, 2018, runs down the different agreements that the Philippines have reached during the official visits to the State of Israel and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. ACE MORANDANTE\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has high hopes that the government is \u201cwinning the war\u201d against the New People\u2019s Army (NPA), noting that many of the rebels have started laying down their arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we are winning the war finally. Maraming front sa Mindanao bumagsak na, especially on the right side, eastern &#8212; Davao, Agusan (There are many front in Mindanao that have collapsed),\u201d Duterte said in his speech in Malaca\u00f1ang on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that\u00a0<em>kung<\/em>\u00a0<em>maawa ang<\/em>\u00a0<em>Panginoong Diyos<\/em>\u00a0(if God will be merciful), this will be over by about the second quarter of next year.\u00a0<em>Ang rami na\u00a0kasi\u00a0nagsu<\/em>-surrender (There are many of them surrendering),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said he knew all of these from intelligence personnel who have information about communist rebels and leaders who have surrendered.<\/p>\n<p>The President earlier reached out to Communist Party of the Philippines founding chairman Jose Maria Sison to return home and talk peace. However, there was a stalemate in the talks because Sison wanted a coalition government.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte said he was still open to the resumption of peace talks but Sison had to comply with his conditions&#8211;for the peace talks to be held in the Philippines, for the rebels to stop collecting revolutionary taxes, and for hostilities to cease, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The President had promised to give all rebel surrenderees housing and livelihood opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo R. Duterte has high hopes that the government is \u201cwinning the war\u201d against the New People\u2019s Army &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":181156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182264","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}