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One day after the signing of the Bangsamoro law, President Rodrigo Duterte calls on terrorist groups not to trigger conflict during the establishment of the Bangsamoro government
PROVINCIAL TOUR. President Rodrigo Duterte delivered the inaugural address of the 69th edition of the Ipil Municipal Plaza in Zamboanga Sibugay on July 26, 2018. Karl Norman Alonzo / Presidential Photo
MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday, July 27 that he wants to dialogue with the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf to put an end to the bloodshed in Mindanao
" Mag-usap na lang, Iyong Abu Sayyaf, mag-usap na lang tayo. Ano bang gawain natin? Magpatayan tayong lahat (Talking about Abu Sayyaf, are we talking about, what are we doing, are you killing each other)? Duterte said in a speech at Jolo, Sulu, where Abu Sayyaf operates
This was not the first time the President had expressed his openness to dialogue with Abu Sayyaf.A few days before he formally assumed the presidency in 2016, Duterte had said that "the Abu Sayyaf is not m one enemy "and that he wanted to ask them if they were" ready to speak or if we were just fighting out "
Duterte had also said more early that he did not consider Abu Sayyaf – became infamous for the kidnapping for ransom of strangers – as a criminal while he was committing his acts In his speech on Friday, the president has also asked the terrorist group to give him more time to respond to their complaints about Mindanao and the government
. I have a president with moro blood, give me a little time … Now, if you really want to finish this world, bathe Mindanao and Jolo in the blood, let's just talk, "he says in Filipino.
The previous day, Duterte signed the Bangsamoro Organic Historical Law (BOL) which creates a new Bangsamoro Autonomous Region to replace the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). (READ: DOCUMENT: Organic Law of Bangsamoro) [19659009InhisspeechonFridayhecalledonterroristgroupsnottounleashanyconflictoractsofviolenceduringtheimplementationoftheBOL
"The BBL is signed. Give it a little time, do not go to war, because if there is war, I have no problem dying, but we all die, " he said in Philippine
. said he would not talk to terrorists.
He also made it clear that he rejects any discussion with the Islamic State (ISIS) because he has "no ideology apart from destroying and killing". The Abu Sayyaf, however, is aligned with ISIS. (READ: Union more dangerous: Abu Sayyaf Sulu and ISIS East Asia finally align)
Duterte himself had said that the IS aims to erect a caliphate in Mindanao. – Rappler.com
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