Local officials, military and religious leaders have forged a truce that will pave the way for the resolution of a land conflict in South Upi, Maguindanao.
Earlier, Muslim and Christian rival groups also agreed to let traditional leaders, the police and the military to jointly set the demarcations that would separate their respective territories to prevent misunderstanding that can lead to shooting war.
Marine Colonel Emmanuel Salamat, chief of 1st Marine Brigade, initiated the dialogue between warring clans in Sitios Bahar and Pomogoyon in Barangay Pandan after both sides traded bullets last week that claimed at least two lives.
Maguindanaons, the people of Maguindanao involved in the conflict are either member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and National Liberation Front (MNLF.
Earlier, Brig. Carlito Galvez, chair of the government ceasefire panel with the MILF, urged the warring clans to sit down in a negotiating table and settle their misunderstanding peacefully.
Police and Marines were deployed in the village to prevent skirmishes.
The village had been quite the past four days, Salamat said.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=680414
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