Detained peace consultants on Sunday rejected the idea of holding peace negotiations in the Philippines as well as the offer of President Rodrigo Duterte to have a one-on-one session with self-exiled communist leader Jose Maria “Joma” Sison.

In a statement they signed, 10 jailed consultants said the one-on-one proposal of Duterte to Sison, who is in The Netherlands, was a “trap” and a “setup” “intended to finish [Sison] off and decapitate the 51-year-old nationwide insurgency.”