DAVAO CITY: Farmers fighting for genuine land reform on Sunday appealed to President Rodrigo Duterte to continue the peace talks with communist rebels after he scrapped the negotiations over a spate of deadly attacks by the insurgents in southern Philippines.

Duterte’s decision to abandon the negotiations with communist leaders came on Saturday barely a day after he terminated the government’s unilateral ceasefire with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels who also ended earlier its own truce.

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