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https://youtu.be/5-dEefh1G-M (Eagle News) — A girl weeps as she tries to draw a tragic scene that she witnessed in her well-loved home city of Marawi. She bows her head, drawing her knees close to her body, and sobs, holding a pencil and a pad paper. She doesn’t want to look up. Her once peaceful environment was shattered when Islamist terrorists — combined forces of Maute rebels, the Abu Sayyaf Group and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters […]
(Eagle News) — Binulabog ng sunod-sunod na pagsabog ang provincial headquarters ng Philippine National Police sa bayan ng Shariff Aguak sa Maguindanao. Ayon kay Maguindanao Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Agustin Tello, pinasabugan ng limang rounds ng M203 grenade launcher ng hinihinalang mga miyembro ng Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) ang naturang punong himpilan ngunit lumagpas ito at tumama sa kabahayan ng sibilyan. Sugatan naman sa nangyaring pagsabog ang 70 taong gulang na lalaki nakilalang […]
Gonzales: Gov’t battling between 400 to 700 Islamist terrorists from ASG, Maute, BIFF, other groups (Eagle News) — Former National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales said that the Marawi situation is “very, very serious” and “dangerous” as the Abu Sayyaf leader Isnilon Hapilon had managed to merge a combination of forces numbering between 400 to 700 from the Maute group, the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in his campaign to establish a caliphate […]
SEVEN of the more than 150 inmates who escaped from the Cotabato District Jail in Amas, Kidapawan City have been killed as the manhunt for the escaped inmates is intensified. According to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) spokesman Chief Insp. Xavier Solda, at least six of the inmates have already been recaptured. Five of them surrendered to local officials in Cotabato. The jailbreak happened past 1 a.m. Wednesday (January 4) when […]
MANILA. Philippines (Reuters) — Armed men with links to Muslim rebels stormed a prison early on Wednesday (January 4) in the southern Philippines, killing a guard and freeing more than a 150 inmates, police said. The Southeast Asian nation has for decades been plagued by insurgencies by Muslim rebels in its southern islands, with President Rodrigo Duterte seeking to promote broad peace in the predominantly Catholic country. The gunmen opened fire at guards at the […]
DATU SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao, Feb. 26 — The military wing of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have repositioned more than a thousand of its fighters in several barangays to avoid a mis-encounter as the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) continues its law enforcement operations against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and other terrorist groups operating in the province. Last February 5, the AFP’s 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade initiated a law enforcement operation against […]
MANILA, Philippines (AFP) — Three civilians were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in a remote Philippine region where the army and Muslim rebels have engaged in sporadic fighting for days, police said Wednesday. Muslim insurgents booby-trapped a highway to target military convoys, but it detonated when a van with six people aboard drove through late Tuesday, according to a report from the provincial police office that was sent to AFP. Three of the van’s passengers […]
The Department of Justice finally starts preliminary investigation on the case of complex crime of multiple murder and theft against more than 90 individual members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) as well as other private armed groups in connection with the armed encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao that resulted in the death of 44 Philippine National Police – Special Action Force commandos. The widows of the 44 fallen PNP-SAF […]
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the National Prosecution Service formally filed charges of direct assault and murder against 90 individuals before the Department of Justice (DOJ) in connection with the botched Mamasapano incident last January. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said that among the 90 identified respondents, 26 are members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), 12 are Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) and 52 are from people’s armed groups. The 90 […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) will file cases against 90 suspects involved in the killing of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) commandos in Mamasapano earlier this year. According to Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, 26 of the suspects are members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) while the rest are from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
After revealing last week that there is an alternative version of events in the Mamasapano incident that is “undergoing very intense scrutiny” President Benigno S. Aquino III admitted on Tuesday (September 15) that the “alternative version” of the deadly incident may be “totally false” after all. “Gusto kong idiin, hindi kami nagsasabi nitong ‘alternative version’ ay sigurado na kami itong totoo. We are not discounting the possibility na baka totally false ‘yung alternative version,” President […]
THE National Bureau of Investigation has filed a complaint of complex crime of direct assault with murder and theft against more than 100 Moro rebels for the carnage in Mamasapano, Maguindanao in January this year where more than 35 policemen were killed. The filing of the complaint came in more than six months after the tragedy which shocked the nation and put a spotlight on the Mindanao peace efforts, including the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law. […]
