Another one-year extension of martial law is needed to hunt down foreign terrorists who have entered the country through the southern backdoor, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Tuesday.

Lorenzana made the statement in defending Armed Forces chief Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., who announced on Monday that the military would request another year of military rule on the whole island of Mindanao to crush terrorists.

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