“Support for the communist movement will continue to erode in the next few months... Like the decades-old Moro rebellion in Mindanao, we also bring an end to the armed struggle of the communists once and for all.”
What Vera Files found
In the past five years of his presidency, President Duterte went from trying to talk peace with the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People’s Army, to declaring an all-out war with the movement to end the 52-year armed struggle within his term.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
President Rodrigo Duterte made this claim around 26 July 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 8 August 2021, 13 days later. Its rating was “Flip-flop”.
President Rodrigo Duterte has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/L9xEdC3j3A4?t=3928
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