Wednesday, March 25, 2015

MILF: Napeñas violated ceasefire agreement in Mamasapano incident – MILF

Posted to the MILF Website (Mar 25): Napeñas violated ceasefire agreement in Mamasapano incident – MILF

Napeñas violated ceasefire agreement in Mamasapano incident – MILF

 
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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