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| Bangsamoro leader: Militants endanger efforts to disarm ex-MILF guerrillas in southern Philippines |
| 2023-08-05 |
| [BenarNews] Militant groups are endangering efforts to disarm former Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas by trying to recruit them, the head of an autonomous Moslem region in the southern Philippines told 1,300 ex-combatants during their official decommissioning ceremony this week. Some MILF members have reneged on the group’s promise to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to cooperate in the transition to peace in the south, said Murad Ebrahim, the ex-chief of the former separatist group who now heads the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Moslem Mindanao (BARMM). "We are facing a very challenging situation because there are still groups out there that encourage our members to join them," Murad told news hounds Thursday during a ceremony here as he led 1,301 former MILF combatants in the third and final phase of a process to decommission them as fighters and have them turn over their weapons. |
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| #1 Do NOT search for MILF gorillas! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-08-05 11:13 |