MANILA, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Tuesday that the Muslim rebel groups should sever their connection with the terrorist Abu Sayyaf group for the peace process to succeed.
Duterte said that the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) were supplying weapons to the Abu Sayyaf rebels.
"I want to hear from MI(LF) and MN(LF) that they have no connection anymore with the Abu Sayyaf because the arms of the Abu Sayyaf belong to them," he said in a speech in northern province of Nueva Ecija in front of the government troops.
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