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(Eagle News)–Moro Islamic Liberation Front vice chair Ghazali Jaafar has died. He was 75 years old. In a radio interview, Professor Raby B. Angkal, chief of staff of the Office of the Chairman of the Bangsamoro Transition Commission and also the Jaafar family spokesperson, said Jaafar had been hospitalized due to a heart problem. Jaafar had been appointed as speaker of the parliament of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which replaced the Autonomous Region in Muslim […]
(Eagle News) – All is set for the conduct, Wednesday, February 6, of the second round of the plebiscite for the ratification of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL), as security measures were further tightened especially after the Jolo bombing in Sulu. Commission on Elections spokesperson James Jimenez said all is ready for the February 6 plebiscite BOL plebiscite which will be conducted in the following areas: – province of Lanao del Norte, except Iligan […]
(Eagle News)—-The Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Lt. Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. recently visited a Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s camp. Galvez visited Camp Darapanan in Maguindanao in particular, pictures provided by the military showed. According to the AFP, this is the first time the military chief visited an MILF camp.
SULTAN KUDARAT, Maguindanao–Members or supporters of the Philippines’ largest Muslim rebel group gathered in their tens of thousands on Sunday to discuss the landmark Bangsamoro Organic Law granting them autonomy, with one expressing hope it would make their “dream of peace” a reality. President Rodrigo Duterte last week signed the law, a key step to ending a Muslim rebellion in the south that had claimed about 150,000 lives since the 1970s. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members, supporters […]
By Mar Gabriel Eagle News Service Authorities on Monday, June 18, arrested a former member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and his uncle after they sold P50,000 worth of shabu to a police poseur-buyer in Quezon City, the police said on Tuesday, June 19. The suspects were identified as Kasle Manap alias Castro from Cotabato, and his uncle Ibrahim Usman. According to Quezon City Police District director Chief Supt. Joselito Esquivel, the two sold the […]
(Eagle News)–Four people were killed in clashes between two Moro clans in North Cotabato over the weekend. The police said the two fatalities in the skirmishes that started in Barangay Kidama on Saturday night and ended on Sunday in Barangay Marbel were members of the Moro National Liberation Front. The other two were members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Authorities said the clashes were the result of “rido,” and broke out after the brother […]
The Philippines’ largest Muslim militant group has launched a deadly offensive against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, a splinter faction that has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, police said Saturday. The fighting between the two groups began about two weeks ago in the marshy farmlands around the southern town of Datu Salibo in Maguindanao, regional police spokeswoman Tara Leah Cuyco said. Clashes between the MILF and its offshoot took place on Friday and Saturday, […]
QUEZON City, Philippines – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front confirmed that its chief of the ceasefire committee, Rashid Ladiasan died because of lung cancer. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
PASIG CITY, May 6 — Filipino voters should factor the stance of their candidates on peace for the country come election day on May 9, in order to preserve and continue the gains of the peace process initiatives of the current administration, said Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles. “I hope you will greatly consider the stance, or the lack thereof, of the candidates on the peace […]
KUALA Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP) — The Islamic State group is trying to establish a stronghold in the violence-racked southern Philippines, the head of the nation’s biggest Muslim rebel organisation warned Monday. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim said the extremist IS seeks to capitalize on growing frustration over the breakdown of efforts to end a decades-long Muslim separatist rebellion in the southern Mindanao region. The peace process has been frozen since the Philippine […]
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) — The head of the Philippines’ main Muslim rebel group on Thursday urged his followers to maintain a ceasefire with the government despite failure to pass a bill implementing a peace accord. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Murad Ebrahim made the appeal in a statement carried on the group’s Facebook page. “In spite of the non-passage of the (bill), the MILF will continue to uphold the peace process and ensure that all […]
