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Another suspect in Maguindanao massacre arrested

(Photo courtesy of CIDG) MANILA -The Philippine National Police-Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (PNP-CIDG) on Thursday announced the arrest of another suspect in the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Cotabato City. In a statement sent to reporters, the CIDG said Datu Harris Ampatuan Macapendeng, the incumbent Barangay Chairperson of Tuayan, Datu Hoffer town in Maguindanao province with a monetary reward of PHP300,000 under DILG Memo Circular 2010-76, has been arrested by personnel of the CIDG Maguindanao Field Unit on Wednesday afternoon at the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mind...

NORMALIZATION. Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) communities in the Zamboanga Peninsula receive agricultural machinery and livelihood equipment under the normalization program of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity and the Department of Trade and Industry. OPAPRU on Thursday (March 3, 2022) said this is part of the four main components of the Bangsamoro normalization track. (Photo courtesy of OPAPRU) MANILA - Five cooperatives composed of decommissioned combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) with their families received farming machinery...

CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao - A total of 16 Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighter (BIFF) members decided to lay down their arms and surrender to government troops

What’s new? Two years into a three-year transition, the “normalisation” process that aims to disarm ex-rebels and pay peace dividends to the Philippines’ Bangsamoro region is behind schedule, partly because of COVID-19. Manila has recently taken steps to restore the momentum, but time is of the essence. Why does it matter? Normalisation has several essential components, including supplying socio-economic support, deploying peacekeeping teams to boost conflict mitigation efforts and disbanding private militias. Whether or not the government extends the 2022 deadline for the politic...