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  • Army soldiers burn 43 houses in Maguindanao; one Simba tank still unretrieved

    Government soldiers, deeply angered by their series of defeats from the hands of MILF freedom fighters, are turning their ire on Moro civilian houses in the province. Just for two days, Monday and Tuesday, September 29 and 30, Army soldiers belonging to t...
  • AFP troops shoot Moro civilians, one killed, three missing

    Four civilians were fired upon by the soldiers of the 602nd Infantry Brigade, Philippine Army last September 27, 2008 at Carmen, Cotabato Province. The victims were walking home when they were shot by soldiers of the Philippine Army while they were passin...
  • Truce calls continue as fighting, grim situation still grip Mindanao areas

    Appeals to immediate cessation of hostilities in the embattled provinces in Mindanao had intensified as fighting between the government forces and freedom fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) went on unabated. Various sectors of society re...
  • More soldiers fall in continuing clashes in Maguindanao; humanitarian crisis looms

    Seven more soldiers died yesterday in sporadic clashes with the freedom fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) at the marshy area of Nimao, Datu Piang, Maguindanao. Firefight started at nine o’clock in the morning when the AFP composi...
  • Misuari sympathizes with MILF, report says

    In an ambush interview with MNLF chairman Nur Misuari in Zamboanga City Thursday, September 26, he expressed sadness over the war in Central Mindanao, saying the war is not necessary because civilians will only suffer the sequences. He further stated that...
  • Marines movie showing propaganda, civilians say

    Parents of children treated to a movie by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in Sulu branded the effort as a cheap propoganda out to win the hearts of tender minds in the ongoing war in Mindanao. The showing is every Sunday. It is hosted by the Joi...
  • MILF kills 28 soldiers, destroys 2 tanks in Maguindanao firefight

    Freedom fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) killed at least 28 Army soldiers in a clash Thursday, September 25, from 10:00am to 7:30pm in Nimao, Datu Piang, Maguindanao, while another group of highly spirited MILF fighters destroyed two t...
  • Bees beat off attacking soldiers, 1 killed, scores hospitalized

    A huge swarm of bees beat off government soldiers, searching for Commander Bravo Macapaar and his men in the mountains of Madamba, Lanao del Sur, the other day....
  • AFP soldiers die, land assets damage in bloody fight with MILF

    More or less 20 soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were killed and several others were wounded yesterday in a fierce firefight with the freedom fighters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) at the marshy areas of Gawang, Datu Pia...
  • Sec. Puno is also hated in Western Mindanao, report says

    In a press briefing at the Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City, the other day, Secretary Ronaldo Puno lamented the MILF top officials for having refused to stop the atrocities committed by the MILF against the children...
  • Moro humanitarian tragedy unfolds: Government-AFP-PNP complicit

    Moros know the news is bad when the administration begins to claim the AFP has the rebels on the run.  Civilian casualties are not an unusual sight during army ops supported by air strikes, but such occurrence tends to undermine also public confidence ...
  • MILF to AFP: Your unjust system clears pilots

    A ranking member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) described the clearing of pilots from any liability in the deaths of seven civilians during air strikes in Barangay Tee in Datu Piang town in Maguindanao last September 8 as another instance of ...
  • AFP men loot Mosque properties in Lanao, attack again in Maguindanao

    Belongings of several Mosques in the municipality Piagapo, Lanao del Sur and in the municipalities of Poonapiagapo and Munai in Lanao del Norte were looted by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) men devoid of necessary military discipline. Carpet fl...
  • Probe on AFP indiscriminate shelling, rights violations sought

    Immediate investigation on the atrocities and human rights violations committed by elements of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) in the provinces of Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur are being sought by the victims. “We are appealing for jus...
  • AFP Bombardment of Moro Civilian Communities in Lanao del Norte Continues Without Let-Up

    The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is continuously bombarding with 105 mm howitzers from early morning today the municipality of Poona Piagapo, Lanao del Norte. As of this writing, the bombardment is still going on. According to MILF sources in the...
  • Luwaran.com to conduct online survey on Moro most hated Filipino politicians

    The MILF official website, www.luwaran.com, will conduct an online survey with the question, Who is the most hated Filipino leader? The survey was conceived of after the failed signing of the MOA-AD in Malaysia on August 5, 2008 that infuriated Moros and ...
  • Clashes erupt anew in Lanao provinces, AFP torch civilian houses

    Sporadic clashes blew up as early as dawn yesterday in three municipalities between the aggressive Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the freedom fighters of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces – Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Fightin...
  • MILF: Where is Pinol, what drives him to go to war?

    After occupying center stage on the war against the signing of the MILF-GRP Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), North Cotabato vice governor Emmanuel Piñol is silent and is practically unheard of since. What drives him to go to war ev...
  • Muslims hit government for unprincipled attacks

    The Muslim populace of Lanao del Sur and Lanao del Norte assailed the attacks launched yesterday by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as totally insensitive and unprincipled. In text messages to Luwaran, civilians of the Lanao Empire rebuked the r...
  • MILF welcomes bringing issue of child soldier to UN

    The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) welcomes bringing to the United Nations the issue of “child soldiers” by the Philippine government, saying this will clarify which side, the government or MILF, is destroying the future of children in t...
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