MILF: ‘If you were in our shoes’

THE Moro Islamic Liberation Front has published an editorial on its website about the encounter in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. Forty-four members of the Special Action Force who were part of an operation to kill or capture Basit Usman and Zulkifli bin Hir alias “Marwan,” linked to the international terrorist group al Qaeda, died in the January 25 incident.

The United States government has declared Marwan and Usman as “terrorists” and have placed them under the wanted list of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

If you were in the shoes of the MILF, what will you do at that precise moment of uncertainty and tense situation? Already there was fierce firefight in not a distant village; and it was 4:00am, the darkest part of the night. Would anyone in his right mind consider armed intruders, whom they never expected, as still friends? – MILF editorial

“The law of the hour was to shoot or be shot at or kill or be killed. Who fired first is a chicken and egg question,” the MILF said in the editorial published February 8, 2015 on its website luwaran.net.

Click on photo to read the full editorial on luwaran.net.

Another MILF editorial was titled “Is justice one-sided in this country?”

The MILF has come into full grips of the serious backlash of that tragic incident in Mamasapano, Maguindanao last January 25 where 44 members of the Special Action Force (SAF) of the Philippine National Police (PNP) died during a “misencounter” with MILF forces, who in turn suffered 18 dead and 14 wounded. Civilian casualties are yet to be accounted for. It is natural that emotions would fly fast and intense especially from the SAFs’ kith and kin.

Luwaran also reported that peace rallies are being held in Mindanao calling for the immediate passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law.

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PHOTO from luwaran.net.

The MILF is also calling for the immediate passage of a “good BBL” in another editorial posted on its website.

Click here to read the editorial in full.