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[Summary] => Armed Forces chief Gen. Diomedio Villanueva rejected yesterday a call to negotiate with Muslim gunmen even after they threatened to behead a Chinese and a Filipino hostage if they are not paid $10 million as ransom.
Villanueva told reporters the governments policy is not to pay ransom for Chinese Zhang Zhung-yi and Filipino Edwin Lim who are being held captive by renegade members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front on the border of Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat provinces.
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