Feuding Maranaw clans end war

From the Philippine Star (Apr 23): Feuding Maranaw clans end war

LANAO DEL SUR, Philippines - Leaders of two feuding ethnic Maranaw clans in Malabang town on Thursday swore over the Qur’an to end a deadly two-decade “rido” sparked by political differences and land disputes.

The term rido means clan war for Maranaws, dominant in Lanao del Sur, a province in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao which accounts for most number of still unresolved family feuds in ARMM.

In a report to the office of ARMM Gov. Mujiv Hataman, the regional police said elders of the rival Montañer and Ali clans signed a covenant putting closure to a conflict that killed more than a dozen people on both sides.

The ARMM police gave credit to local officials, among them Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong Jr., the provincial police office, and ARMM Vice Gov. Haroun Al-Rashid Lucman, for helping resolve the Montaner-Ali clan war.

Lucman had earlier settled more than a dozen rido in Lanao del Sur in the past two years, mostly triggered by political rivalry, affronts on family “maratabat” (pride and honor) and land ownership issues.

Lucman said one reason for the continuing proliferation of clan wars in Lanao del Sur is the lack of courts and presiding judges to handle civil and criminal cases involving big Maranaw families.

Lucman, concurrent social welfare secretary of ARMM, said some commanders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in different towns in Lanao del Sur and Muslim religious leaders have actively been helping the regional government resolve clan wars in the province.

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