AFP files complaint of truce violation against MILF unit over Marawi attack

From InterAksyon (Dec 7): AFP files complaint of truce violation against MILF unit over Marawi attack

A day after Malacanang Palace condemned the attack in Marawi City and abduction of its police chief by a unit of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Armed Forces of the Philippines filed a complaint against the MILF culprits for violation of the cease-fire agreement.

The complaint was filed by a military unit based in Lanao del Sur before a counterpart body, over the Dec. 6 raid on the Marawi City Police in Barangay West Marinaut.

Col. Glenn Macasero, commander of the Army’s 103rdInfantry Brigade, filed the complaint before the office of Oshama Ali, head of the MILF Ad Hoc Joint Action Group (AHJAG) Team 2 based in the province.

The subject of Macasero’s complaint was a certain Toni Datu Repors, leader of the MILF unit who led his men in the raid shortly after midnight Friday, killing the police chief’s brother and abducting the police chief himself as human shield while they withdrew.

“Elements of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) led by a certain Toni Datu Repors blatantly violated the truce with the government when he and his cohorts attacked the Marawi City Police Station, killing one civilian, and abducted Supt. Christopher Panapan, Chief-of-Police of Marawi City PNP past midnight of December 6, 2013,” Macasero said.

A police report earlier tagged Commander Abdurahman Macapaar alias Bravo as the one who led the attack.

Macasero said the MILF had come by boat near the vicinity of the police station, in a bid to spring some comrades held on gun charges. “They conducted the attack to free their detained comrades, namely, Johani Abuat Cader and Mesron Mauntol Borodan who were apprehended by the police sometime on October 20, 2013 for illegal possession of firearms,” he said.

The MILF team took Panapan hostage as they fled, and later released him after negotiations by the Crisis Management Committee led by the city vice mayor. The police said the attackers had killed Malik, brother of Panapan.

Repors’ group’s raid took place despite resumption of formal negotiations between the government and MILF peace panels in Kuala Lumpur—covering the rest of the annexes set in the Framework Agreement signed in October 2012 by President Benigno Aquino III and MILF chairman Al Haj Murad .

Malacanang Palace denounced the attack Friday night, and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said it had moved for an investigation by a joint panel.

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