COTABATO CITY – The Bangsamoro Human Rights Commission of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BHRC-BARMM) on April 25 condemned the ongoing firefight between two armed groups in the three barangays of the Datu Saudi Ampatuan town in Maguindanao del Sur. The Philippine Army’s 6th Infantry Division reported that armed clashes between two armed […]
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900 MILF combatants up for decommissioning
CARMEN, NORTH COTABATO (August 2) — Nine hundred twenty combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and 210 of their weapons will be decommissioned on September 7, 2019 in a ceremony that will be attended by President Rodrigo Duterte in the Old Maguindanao Provincial Capitol in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao. This was announced by […]
Gov’t decommissions 12K MILF troops: Nograles.
MANILA — Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles on Tuesday bared that the government has decommissioned a total of 12,000 or close to a third of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) troops as part of efforts to fast-track normalization efforts. Nograles made this remark after he co-chaired the first meeting of the Inter-Cabinet Cluster Mechanism on Normalization (ICCMN), […]
MILF to file protest over the massacre of 9 BIAF members in Nocot
MATALAM, NoCot (May 27) –— The leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will file a protest over the death of nine members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), who were allegedly massacred during the joint military and police anti-drug operation in the village Biao, Kilada, […]
MILF member, wife nabbed in Maguindanao anti-drug ops
DATU ODIN SINSUAT, Maguindanao – Anti-narcotics agents, backed by the Army’s 90th Infantry Battalion and police, arrested a member of Moro rebel group and his wife during anti-drug operation in Barangay Poblacion Dalican here Friday. Armed with search warrant issued by the 12th Regional Trial Court Branch 13 Judge Bansawan Ibrahim, agents of Philippine Drug […]
GMA to withdraw her version BBL in favor of the new draft
DAVAO CITY, Philippines —- Former President, now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will withdraw her version of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and support teh new version of the draft bill pending in Congress. Presidential Assistant on Peace Process Secretary Jesus Dureza, in a a press statement Wednesday said Arroyo, in a phone conversation with him and […]