THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) expressed support for President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to cancel peace talks with the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) following a series of attacks by its armed wing, the New People's Army (NPA).

"Indeed, it is a futile effort to continue to talk peace with the group like CPP-NPA-NDF whose mem-bers continue to bleed money from people and senselessly kill our soldiers that defend and protect our people," Colonel Edgard Arevalo, chief of the AFP public affairs, told reporters in Camp Aguinaldo at a press conference on Thursday.

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