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Ministers seek to designate communists as terrorist groups
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PHILIPPINE ministers are seeking a court order designating the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army military wing as terrorist organisations.

The order would formalise a presidential decree issued last year that says the same thing.

The Maoist party has been waging a guerilla war against the government since the 1960s, but peace talks with the government were initiated by President Rodrigo Duterte in 2016.

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