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Tinanggap na ni Pangulong Rodrigo R. Duterte ang alok ng Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) na 5,000 tauhan para tumulong sa pagsugpo sa Maute Group. Ayon kay Pangulong Duterte, sa liham na ipinadala sa kaniya ni MNLF Chief Nur Misuari, handa niyang patulungin ang kaniyang tauhan sa operasyon ng pamahalaan laban sa mga bandidong grupo. Ayon pa kay Misuari, ito na ang kaniyang pagkakataon para mapatunayan ang kaniyang kahandaan na makipagtulungan sa gobyerno. Sa ganitong […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he was open to accepting members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), as well as members of the New People’s Army (NPA) as part of the government force to fight Islamist terrorists in Mindanao. In a speech addressing the troops of the Joint Task Force Sulu on Saturday, the President said he could give MILF, MNLF and NPA members […]
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 […]
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News) — The Muslim community expressed fears that the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law will once again be delayed after the death of Mohaimen Abo, also known as “Boy Bangsamoro.” Boy Bangsamoro is a member of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces and is the younger brother of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s Vice-Chairman Ghadzali Jaafar. Boy Bangsamoro was killed during a police operation in Barangay Linangcob, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. According […]
(AFP) — Seven people were injured when two bomb explosions rocked a petrol station in the southern part of the country near rebel enclaves, police said Tuesday. An improvised explosive was thrown on Monday night on the roof of the gasoline station in Tacurong city in Mindanao, which has been plagued by a decades-old Muslim insurgency. Two soldiers, three policemen and two civilians were wounded when a second blast went off minutes later as security forces were […]
(Eagle News ) — Muling nagpulong ang mga miyembro ng newly expanded Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) para sa dalawang araw nitong sesyon. Pangunahing layunin ng BTC ay bumuo ng isang congressional measure para palitan ang Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) ng Bangsamoro entity batay sa peace compact sa pagitan ng gobyerno at Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Ang BTC ay inilunsad sa Davao City na pinangunahan mismo ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte, ito ang ipinalit […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte “earnestly asked” members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) not to provide “sanctuary” to the ISIS-connected Maute group, and other terrorist groups. In a speech during his visit to the wounded soldiers in Camp Siongco Station Hospital in Maguindanao, the President said that he wants to pursue peace with the Moro rebels as well as with the communist insurgents, but […]
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 […]
(Eagle News) – President Duterte announced a holiday ceasefire for rebels, urging members of the New People’s Army (NPA), the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to join their families this holiday season. Addressing members of the military during the 81st anniversary celebration of the Armed Forces of the Philippines at Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City on Wednesday, December 21, the President said he himself will be guaranteeing […]
PASIG CITY, Dec. 20 – Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza said the government is open to amending or even rewriting the 1987 Constitution to address the root causes of armed rebel resistance to the government. “If you really look up what they (rebels) aspire for, you have to open up our Constitution to be able to accommodate them. That is the reality,” Dureza said in his remarks during the recent Konsult Mindanao Peace Conference […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed an Executive Order reconstituting the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), expanding its membership from 15 to 21, in a ceremony at Malacañan Palace on Monday, November 7, 2016. The President has directed that the Mindanao peace process be inclusive as this Executive Order will expand the BTC’s membership, with the inclusion of three members from the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) among the government nominees. Eleven members, including […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will join forces in the war against illegal drugs. The alliance will focus on groups selling illegal drugs in central Mindanao.
