Moros embark on PR blitz

From the Manila Standard Today (Nov 4): Moros embark on PR blitz

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has embarked on a public relations blitz in various parts of Mindanao to explain the Framework Agreement it signed with the government last Oct. 15 and stave off criticism of division among Muslim factions. Mohammad Muntassir, head of the MILF’s Department of Da’wah (preaching), the rebel group has formed at least six teams and tasked them to undertake a “massive information drive” in the areas of Sulu-Tawi-Tawi-Basilan, Zamboanga peninsula, Lanao, Davao, Maguindanao-Cotabato, and South Cotabato, according to a statement posted in the MILF’s website Luwaran.com. Muntassir said each team will be accompanied by a member of the MILF Central Committee who will serve as leader in the discussions. The same statement announced that “some 600 MILF political and military leaders, including some MNLF foreign-trained commanders attended the one-day seminar in Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao last Oct. 31.” The MILF issued the statement after its rival organization, the Moro National Liberation Front, revealed that at least four key MILF commanders have defected to the MNLF because they felt that the agreement “a deception by the government and a conspiracy with the Americans to attain their secret objective in Mindanao....”

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