SENATORS from the majority and minority blocs, as well as the military, threw their support behind President Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to cancel talks with the National Democratic Front (NDF), insisting that communist rebels must show sincerity by halting attacks on government troops.

Sen. Gregorio Honasan 2nd, chairman of the Senate Committee on Peace, Unification and Reconciliation said the government must make sure it was talking peace with the right group, or the one with control over communist rebels.

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