The Philippine National Police (PNP) facilitated the oath-taking of 102 former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) fighters as new police officers in a landmark ceremony at Camp Brig. Gen. Salipada K. Pendatun in Parang, Maguindanao del Norte on...
The Marcos government remains dedicated to fulfilling its commitments in the peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as well as the other aspects of the Normalization Program as both sides carried out the resumption of Phase 3 of the Decommissioning Process this week, a Palace...
DAVAO CITY – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has urged the government to fulfill other components of normalization amid the ongoing decommissioning process of its armed wing Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF). The MILF recently issued the statement ahead of the resumption of the third...
Senator Robinhood "Robin" C. Padilla on Monday, June 26, filed a resolution seeking a Senate probe into the alleged violation of the peace agreement between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) following a police operation that resulted in the death of seven persons last June...
CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao del Norte (PNA) – The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) will conduct separate investigations on the June 18 police operation that left seven Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) men dead in Maguindanao del Sur. SAP Lagdameo (FB) In...
DATU PIANG, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – Authorities here disarmed and detained five members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) for possession of unlicensed firearms on Thursday, June 22. “We saw men with firearms,” Police Lt. Col. Armando Liwan, municipal police chief, told reporters...
DAVAO CITY – The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Central Committee has sought an independent probe on the recent law enforcement operation in which seven members were killed in Datu Paglas town in Maguindanao del Sur. In a resolution dated June 20 but made public on June 22, the MILF Central...
"We want to make it work." Thus said President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. as he reiterated his government's desire to work with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to ensure the success of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). *President Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’...
The Western Mindanao Command (WesMinCom) stood by its report that the seven individuals slain in an alleged encounter in Maguindanao del Sur over the weekend were members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF). *(Courtesy of Western Mindanao Command) * A report from the WesMinCom...
ILIGAN CITY – The police and military seized war materiel belonging to warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front groups in Maguindanao del Sur. The 2nd Mechanized Battalion and 2nd Provincial Mobile Force Company conducted a clearing operation in Barangay Elian, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Maguindanao del...
DAVAO CITY – Mayor Juanito Agustin of Pigcawayan town, Cotabato province has stepped in to resolve the infighting of armed Moro groups in Barangay Simsiman to prevent further escalation of the conflict into neighboring areas. Agustin told Manila Bulletin over the phone that he had spoken with the...
DATU SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao del Sur (PNA) – A three-day armed hostilities between two warring Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) groups in two adjoining barangays here has displaced some 800 families or about 4,000 individuals, local officials said on Monday, April 24. At least eight rebels...