MILF not meddling in ARMM polls

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is keeping its hands off the coming elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The Philippines’ largest Islamic separatist rebel group has ordered its forces to stay out of the elections. The campaign period has started for next month’s polls in the Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao in [...]

Esperon: MILF-GRP pact on ancestral domain underway

Hermogenes Esperon, presidential adviser on the peace process and former Armed Forces chief, expressed optimism that a memorandum of agreement on the issue of ancestral domain will be signed by September between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Esperon made the pronouncement in a briefing with Mindanao stakeholders, including the media, Thursday [...]

Milf tells members to prepare for long struggle

The central leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has called on its members throughout Mindanao and Sulu to prepare for a long struggle for freedom and right of self determination of the Bangsamoro people.
Speaking for the MILF, Sheikh Muhammad Muntassir, chairperson of the Front’s Da’wah (Islamic call) Committee, told a gathering of both [...]

MILF wants speedy reply from GRP on ancestral domain issue

It took barely less than three days for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to make its counter-proposal to the Philippine government’s three-point issues related to strand governance of the ancestral domain, which it, after three months and 23 days of legal study, submitted to the Malaysian government for trandsmittal to the MILF.
The MILF peace [...]

MILF: Who is Dureza?

By ROGER M. BALANZA
Does the Arroyo administration know what delay means?
If it does not, then Jesus Dureza should go back to his Webster, according to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), in a statement posted in luwaran.com.
At the core of the MILF beef is the latest Malacanang statement released to the press by [...]

More violence seen in South Cotabato

Paramilitary groups providing security to mining companies in South Cotabato are expected to trigger more violence and killing as the government approved the training of hundreds of civilians to become paramilitary forces to beef up the security forces of a foreign-linked mining company operating in Tampakan, South Cotabato.
Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) [...]

MURAD: MILF as solid as ever

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has emerged from the three-day Expanded Committee Meeting from March 9-11, 2008 as solid as ever, as almost 100% of those invited to come came and participated in the meeting.
This was the assessment of Chairman Murad Ebrahim after the meeting on March 11, at 8:00 to 9:30 am, [...]

PRESS STATEMENT OF MILF CHAIRMAN AL HAJ MURAD EBRAHIM

One people, one struggle, one destiny

            Gathered in this historic meeting are MILF political and military leaders from all over Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan to discuss and resolve important and urgent issues and concerns that confront us over the years.  They number by hundreds, but they come with one purpose in mind:  “One people, one [...]

PHILIPPINE GOVT, MILF TOLD TO EXPLORE NEW PEACE TALKS MODELS

By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) may be using a defective approach in peace negotiation and were urged to study models used in other countries to hasten the search for peace in Mindanao.
The Institute of Bangsamoro Studies (IBS) said the government and MILF, the Moro group fighting for [...]

Muslim Mindanao is Philippines’ poorest region

MILF: ‘Imperial Manila’ to blame for ARMM poverty
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said recent government statistics placing the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) at the bottom of the poverty rating is correct.
But the secessionist Moro group said “Imperial Manila” should be blamed for what it said is a reality against [...]