DIRECTOR General Ricardo Marquez, chief of the Philippine National Police, has ruled out of any plans of holding dialogues with protesting farmers in Kidapawan City, North Cotbato, saying the latter want to blackmail the government.

The PNP chief told reporters in a chance interview on Monday in Camp Crame that many dialogues have taken place between the government and the farmers even before the bloody dispersal took place last Friday.

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