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| Southeast Asia |
| Gun battle kills policeman, militant in Mindanao |
| 2014-02-24 |
| A policeman and a rebel fighter were killed in a gun battle that broke out when a joint police-military team tried to serve an arrest warrant against a militant commander in a camp of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Sanrangani province, a militant spokesman said. MNLF spokesman Absalom Cerveza said fighting broke out when the security team entered an MNLF camp in Barangay Daliao, Maasin last Tuesday to serve a warrant on Tikboy Maguid, a militant leader. Cerveza said, “I condemn the raid by the police in one of our camps in Maasin." When the security squad arrived at the camp they were confronted by three miltants and shots were fired. The militants withdrew during the fighting and left the camp. When the fighting subsided, the police entered and searched the camp but did not find Maguid. Cerveza said the police raided the camp without definite information that Maguid was there and without proper coordination with MNLF leaders in the area and their action jeopardized “what little peace remained in Mindanao.” Cerveza said the attack was an attempt to destroy the MNLF through military action and he accused Undersecretary Jose Lorena of Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) for defending the operation. |
| Posted by:ryuge |