The “unwarranted” intervention of some foreign parties in the Mindanao peace process is making it difficult for the national government to resolve its internal problem with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, former Senate president Franklin Drilon said Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
A sub-commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) insisted on Sunday that rebel forces will not stand down until the government resumes negotiations for the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) that seeks to expand the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Read the rest of this entry »
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) should be tried in an international court for violating international humanitarian laws, an international law professor said Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Malacañang announced Tuesday a 5 million peso reward each for the arrest of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) commanders who allegedly instigated recent deadly attacks in North Cotabato, Lanao del Norte and other areas in southern Philippines. Read the rest of this entry »
Officials at the Land Transportation Office and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) are questioning the proliferation of “Bayani” stickers on windshields of public utility vehicles (PUVs). Read the rest of this entry »
Armed Forces chief Gen. Alexander Yano said the government cannot take the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s (MILF) “convenient excuse” every time its fighters attack communities and civilians in Mindanao. Read the rest of this entry »
Stickers bearing the word “BAYANI” are on buses plying Metro Manila’s roads. Read the rest of this entry »
Malacañang has acknowledged that there are other ways of granting Muslims in Mindanao their demand for an ancestral homeland without changing the system of government from unitary to federal. Read the rest of this entry »
A Palace official declined on Saturday to confirm or deny a report in a national TV Network that the Arroyo administration has already decided not to sign the ancestral domain agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and will instead seek to renegotiate the accord. Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA - Families displaced by fighting between government troops and Muslim separatists in the southern Philippines slowly returned to their bombed-out villages on Thursday but many remained in shelters, too frightened to leave. Read the rest of this entry »
