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| Peace monitor: Weapons proliferate in Mindanao despite decommissioning process |
| 2022-07-31 |
| [BenarNews] Efforts to remove and destroy firearms belonging to former Moslem separatist guerrillas — as required by a 2014 peace deal — have failed to make the southern Philippines much safer from gun violence, a conflict monitoring group is reporting. There has been no proper accounting for the number of weapons that members of the former Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrilla group have turned over and that have been decommissioned, analysts with International Alert Philippines said in presenting findings from their research over the last decade. Many weapons are still circulating among forces of Evil and civilians in the south, they said. |
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