The military here now considers the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) as bandits and terrorists after their leaders publicly admitted they support the international terrorist organization ISIS in
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According to Col. Dickson Hermoso, speaking for the Philippine Army's 6th Infantry Division, the BIFF has no legitimate revolutionary ideology but plain and simple banditry and terrorism.
In Maguindanao, where the BIFF operates, it has been making live difficult even to its own people, Hermoso said.
”They do not care whether civilians are hurt or killed in their atrocities,” Hermoso, who is also the 6th Infantry Division's inspector general, told reporters.
”They don’t have a clear revolutionary ideologue so they are not revolutionaries as they assert,” he added.
Headed by foreign-trained guerrilla Omra Ameril Kato, the BIFF broke away from the mainstream Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in 2008 following the botched signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD).
Since then, the BIFF had been attacking military installations in Maguindanao which resulted in the death and injury of civilians. It also displaced thousands of Bangsamoro people
Hermoso said the military will continue to remain on guard against the terrorists after Abu Misry Mama, the BIFF spokesperson, announced they have allied with the dreaded
The latest atrocities perpetrated by the militants in Maguindanao was the setting off of a roadside bomb on Friday dawn in Barangay Sambolawan, Datu Salibo, Maguindanao which targeted an Army convoy but hit a civilian car instead, leaving four commuters wounded.
Hermoso said that aside from terrorizing civilian communities, the BIFF members are also into illegal drugs as evidenced by shabu paraphernalia recovered by pursuing government forces every time the bandits attack Army detachments in Maguindanao.
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