A Mindanao prelate has
welcomed the decommissioning efforts of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front
(MILF) as part of the agreement of the government and the MILF contained under
the Annex on Normalization of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
(CAB).
“I welcome the gesture that it will really materialize. I
hope also that they will really surrender not only the old firearms but as well
as the new and expensive firearms,” said Basilan Bishop Martin Jumoad.
At the same time, he said he is hoping that the group is
sincere with the decommissioning.
“In the past, they did not surrender everything. They only
surrendered the old ones; the new ones are being kept; so my hope is that they
would be sincere in this decommissioning,” the Catholic prelate added.
Asked on what should the MILF do to show their sincerity,
aside from surrendering their arms, Jumoad said, “They have to surrender also
the firearms of those victims of the Mamasapano incident. I believe hindi pa
nila nabigay.”
Government peace panel chair Miriam Coronel-Ferrer has said
the decommissioning and return of the group’s fighters to civilian life will
begin on Tuesday.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=1&sid=&nid=1&rid=772715
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.