Aquino has word of honor, says MILF commander
By TJ Burgonio
President Aquino’s peace initiative in Mindanao is fostering a lot of goodwill and is seen to likely result in political dividends for Team PNoy in the May elections.
President Aquino’s peace initiative in Mindanao is fostering a lot of goodwill and is seen to likely result in political dividends for Team PNoy in the May elections.
This time around, the female soldiers and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) fighters standing side by side in Simuay, Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao, were not gearing for battle.
It’s all green and yellow from here to Barangay (village) Simuay in Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao, where President Aquino is visiting the main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Monday to promote peace in Mindanao.
After years of fighting the government from hidden jungle bases in Mindanao, an al-Qaida-linked bandit group is facing a new adversary: fellow Moro insurgents who can match their guerrilla battle tactics and are eager to regain their lost stature by fighting the widely condemned terrorist group.
Gunmen hiding in a sugarcane field ambushed early Sunday a truckload of policemen and village guards, killing nine and wounding nine others in a hinterland village at La Castellana town, 28 kilometers south of here.
Seven government troops were killed and eight others were injured in separate ambush incidents in Zamboanga Sibugay on Thursday evening, the provincial military commander said Friday.
Presidential peace adviser Teresita Deles should be fired from her post if she insists on pursuing peace talks with the Moro rebels responsible for the deaths of 19 soldiers in Basilan, Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile said on Thursday.
One soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an encounter with suspected Abu Sayyaf bandits in Basilan Wednesday morning, an Army spokesman said.
ILIGAN City—Moro youth leaders are urging both the government and rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to make public their respective proposals for a political settlement. “Everyone, especially those in government, speaks of transparency and consultation, so why not declassify these drafts?” a statement from Arsad Solaiman, chairman of the Youth for Bangsamoro Genuine [...]
Peace advocates from various sectors throughout the country called on negotiators of both government and rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to immediately resume talks so they could narrow perceived gaps between their respective formula for a political settlement.
A political officer of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Thursday said the United States supported peace initiatives between the MILF and the Philippines but denied claims that the Americans supported rebel demands for the creation of a “substate.” In an interview on Radyo Inquirer, Ghadzali Jaafar, vice chairman for political affairs of the [...]
BAIS, Negros Oriental—President Aquino on Wednesday expressed optimism that the government would be able to firm up a peace deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). “As I told you from the very beginning, the devil is in the details,” the President told reporters when asked about prospects for the talks after the MILF [...]
