MANILA: President Rodrigo Duterte will not lift martial law in Mindanao even if radical leaders and Marawi City siege instigators Isnilon Hapilon, Omar Maute, and Malaysian Dr Mahmud Ahmad are all dead.
Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella reiterated yesterday the statement issued by Duterte on Thursday that revoking the declaration of martial law in Mindanao would not happen “until the last terrorist is taken out”.
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