Relieved
Special Action Force (SAF) chief Director Getulio Napeñas violated the
Ceasefire Agreement and the Terms of Reference calling for coordination in
operations against lawless elements, the Moro Islamic Liberato Front (MILF)
said yesterday as it maintained it was guiltless in the Mamasapano incident.
The
embattled Moro group maintained it does not bear responsibility for the death
of the 44 members of the SAF of the Philippine National Police on January 25 in
Maguindanao.
It laid the blame solely on Napeñas who, it said, disregarded the ceasefire mechanisms agreed upon by the Philippine government and the MILF.
In its
Luwaran.com online portal, the MILF said that the implementing guidelines of
the Security Aspect of the two parties’ agreement signed in Tripoli, Libya, on
August 7, 2001, stipulated that the government would continue to undertake
police and military actions and administrative/logistics activities throughout
Mindanao and the entire country.
“Clearly,
it is shown here that he (Napeñas) willfully and deliberately violated the
ceasefire agreement and the TOR (terms of reference) of the AHJAG which
requires the GPH to punish him on the basis of these obligations,” the MILF
said. AHJAG stands for Ad Hoc Joint Action Group.
The
agreement calls for the Philippine government and the MILF to coordinate in the
isolation and interdiction of lawless elements in Mindanao ,
the MILF said. The MILF maintained the coordination covers “operations
even against high-value targets.”
It also
noted that Napeñas, during the Senate hearings, regarded the MILF as “enemy
forces” during the planning of the operation against Malaysian militant
Zulkifli bin Hir (Marwan) and his understudy, Filipino Abdul Basit Usman. This
is a “willful and deliberate” violation of the ceasefire accord, the MILF said
“On
the part of the MILF, when we signed agreements with the GPH, we signed them
with honor and commitment to abide by them,” the former separatist
revolutionary group said.
Thus, it
said, “the blame must be put entirely on the initiator, which is the PNP-SAF.”
The MILF
considers itself in “aggrieved party” in the Mamasapano incident that also
killed 17 MILF rebels and five civilians, including a baby girl.
The Moro
group seemed to believe the US$5-million reward for Marwan could be a reason
why the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the MILF were kept off from
“the loop.”
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/806-napenas-violated-ceasefire-agreement-in-mamasapano-incident-milf
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