PHILIPPINE President Rodrigo Duterte was accused today of ordering the “summary execution” of two high-profile peace campaigners amid a major clampdown on democratic forces. 

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemned a “liquidation operation” after National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) peace negotiator Reynaldo Bocala was killed, along with Willy Arguelles, in a joint police and military operation in the Visayas region on Friday night.

Father Rustico Tan, who headed negotiations with the government in 1987 and served as peace consultant, was also shot multiple times while asleep in his house in Pilar, Camotes Island, the party said.