LANAO DEL SUR: President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday warned the Maute group to give up arms peacefully, or face a “harsher” military response as he rallied the troops engaged in weeklong clashes that have left dozens of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)-linked gunmen dead.
The president said his trip was not aimed at waging war against the Moro people in general, even as the military was pounding on the Maute group, which has laid siege to parts of the remote town of Butig, in Lanao del Sur province.
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