PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte has issued another ultimatum to the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), calling on the rebel group to reciprocate his unilateral ceasefire declaration or face renewed hostilities.

Duterte was at the 60th Infantry Battalion headquarters in Davao del Norte to visit the wake of a government militiaman killed in an ambush Wednesday by members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the CPP armed wing.

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