MANILA, Philippines—The latest in a string of attacks on local executives, the barbaric assault that that killed Negros Oriental Gov. Roel Degamo on March 4 prompted President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to order the dismantling of 'private armies.' 'All the private armies should be dismantled,' he said while stressing that police should also intensify its crackdown on illegal firearms. 'If there are few illegal firearms, such kinds of crimes would be few too.' The 1987 Constitution is clear as it provides in Article XVIII, Section 24 that 'private armies and other armed groups not recognized by duly constituted authority shall be dismantled.

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