“We do not ask for an unlimited martial law,” Medialdea says
(Eagle News) — “Unlimited peace.”
This was what Executive Salvador Medialdea said was the aim of President Rodrigo Duterte’s proposal for a one-year extension of martial law.
In his presentation before the joint houses of Congress on Wednesday, Medialdea said that such an extension would help quell a “state of actual rebellion” that he said “subsists in Mindanao.”
He said this was “perpetrated not only by remnants of the DIWDM but also the other local and foreign terrorist groups, including the New People’s Army.”
“…(It is) ready to explode anew at any given time.”
“We do not ask for an unlimited martial law. What we are seeking is an unlimited peace,” Medialdea said.