{"id":279413,"date":"2020-12-21T22:20:43","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=279413"},"modified":"2020-12-21T22:20:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T03:20:43","slug":"dilg-ordered-to-control-sale-of-explosives-in-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/21\/dilg-ordered-to-control-sale-of-explosives-in-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"DILG ordered to control sale of explosives in mining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Rodrigo Roa Duterte presides over a meeting with the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) core members prior to his talk to the people at the Arcadia Active Lifestyle Center in Matina, Davao City on December 21, 2020. RICHARD MADELO\/ PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to control the sale and use of explosives in mining operations.<\/p>\n

In a taped address late Monday, Duterte said he wanted explosives to have clearance from police and military before they are sold and used to prevent them from being used by communist rebels in attacks against government forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to direct the DILG,\u00a0nandito si<\/em>\u00a0Secretary [Eduardo] A\u00f1o (is there).\u00a0Iyang mga IED ng komunista, ipasok ko na lang lahat. Iyang mga IED ninyo, komunista, saan ninyo kinukuha \u2018yan? Sige nga.<\/em>\u00a0Where do you get your explosives, powder?\u00a0Karamihan diyan galing sa mina<\/em>\u00a0(Where do they get their EID? Most of them come from mining),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be cleared by the police and supervised strictly. And then when you go to the area, go to the commanding officer of the military there and let him know that you have bought these explosives\u00a0para may ma — \u2018pag ginamit na ninyo \u2018yan, mabantayan<\/em>\u00a0(so that when you use them, they can be monitored),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

According to Duterte, the sale and use of explosives must be controlled because they cause serious injuries or deaths to police and military.<\/p>\n

\u201cItong pabili ng<\/em>\u00a0(The purchase of) explosives, dynamites, must be controlled,\u00a0talagang higpitan ni<\/em>\u00a0General A\u00f1o (will be strict) and the commanding officer of the area\u00a0nasa<\/em>\u00a0(in the) military must be informed so that he will also have a — he would know how to check,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said communist rebels would always find a way to justify the use of explosives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you use it, it\u2019s okay. But when you — you use it to kill military men, government personnel, police, okay.\u00a0Gusto naming maglagay ng<\/em>\u00a0landmine\u00a0rin pero ang problema, bawal<\/em>\u00a0(We want to use them for landmines but it\u2019s not allowed). Government cannot violate the laws.\u00a0Kayo, wala man kayong pakialam sa<\/em>\u00a0laws (You, you don\u2019t care about laws),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In 2018, Duterte ordered the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to revoke licenses of mining companies supplying explosives to communist rebel groups.<\/p>\n

A year earlier, he threatened to close down mining companies paying revolutionary taxes to the New People’s Army, the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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