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| Three BIFF militants surrender in Maguindanao |
| 2018-06-28 |
| [PhilStar] Three more members of the banned Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters surrendered on Friday and pledged allegiance to the Philippine flag. One of them told reporters they decided to surrender and turn over their firearms after realizing that their group, based in central Mindanao’s Liguasan Delta, could be next military target following an airstrike there two weeks ago that destroyed their makeshift bomb-making facility and killed nine, three of them foreign terrorists. He said the squabbles of their commanders for leadership of the BIFF - which has three factions now, one of them led by an Islamic State-inspired cleric, Imam Abu Toraife - are worsening. The surrender of the three men brings to 18 the number of BIFF rebels who surrendered to the 6th ID since April this year. The first to give up were four rebels trained in bomb-making by slain Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, most known as Marwan. Eleven more surrendered three weeks later. Reports have circulated purporting that more than 20 BIFF members had been executed by their comrades from April to May alone on the mere suspicion they were in talks with groups interceding for their surrender. Two of those reportedly killed by companions gangland style, Akong Sumael and Khalid Tangan, were accused of providing the military information on their movements in the Liguasan Delta. |
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