President Rodrigo Duterte on Saturday said he would issue a proclamation labeling communist rebels as terrorists as he reiterated that he no longer wanted to talk with the National Democratic Front and the Communist Party of the Philippines following a string of attacks by the New People’s Army on state forces.

“Then, we recognized them as rebels but with their continued predations and killing innocent people and even an infant, a four month old, I will be issuing a proclamation, I will remove them from the category of a legal entity or at least a semi-movement which would merit our attention, placing them, just like in America, terrorists,” Duterte said in a media interview in Davao City.

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