The Manila Times’ front page yesterday inadvertently pointing to the twin threats to the Republic: Armed groups in Muslim Mindanao and the NPA

Unfortunately, while intended to bolster troops’ morale, Duterte’s statement that he alone would be responsible for anything soldiers did during martial law, and his joke that this would include rapes, send the opposite of the necessary signal he should be sending to the troops.

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