One of the members of outlawed Moro group who figured in
clashes with government forces in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao, was arrested while
getting medical attention at a government hospital here, police said Monday.
Chief Inspector William Santos, officer in charge (OIC) of
the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group in the Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao (CIDG-ARMM), said Zainudin Kawilan who was facing a double
murder case was arrested at the Cotabato Regional and Medical Center (CRMC) by
joint Army and police officers over the weekend.
He did not resist arrest and admitted he was a member of the
outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
Kawilan is known among police and military intelligence
operatives as a field commander of the BIFF Special Operations Group involved
in bomb making and guerrilla operations against elements of the 6th Infantry
Division.
Kawilan was included in the 6th ID intelligence watch list
for his involvement in the series of road side bombing against soldiers and
civilians in Datu Salibo and nearby municipalities of Maguindanao.
While most of the BIFF forces are concentrated in
Maguindanao’s interior villages, Kawilan has been monitored to be frequenting Cotabato City
Police intelligence information also showed Kawilan was also
a gun for hire and offered his services to politicians.
For more than a month, the Army’s 6th ID, through its Task
Force Central, launched in February air and ground assaults against the BIFF
after it harassed workers of a flood control project in Datu Salibo.
Five soldiers were killed and 26 others were injured during
the operation. The military could not say how many BIFF fighters were
neutralized during the operation.
However, community leaders near the clash site reported more
than 50 BIFF have died in the military offensives.
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