Rasid Ladiasan
Rasid Ladiasan, the chairman of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front contingent to the Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities, died of lung cancer Wednesday, May 11.
Ladiasan’s death was announced by the government peace panel that negotiated the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro with the MILF.
He is survived by his wife Zuhaira, four children aged between 11 and 5, and his parents.
The government peace panel said it was “saddened” by Ladiasan’s death and extended its condolences to the MILF official whom it credited with “keeping the peace on the ground which led to an unprecedented record of zero skirmishes between government and MILF troops from 2012 to 2015, broken only by the tragic Mamasapano incident.”
The January 25, 2015 incident in Mamasapano, Maguindanao claimed the lives of 44 police Special Action Force commandos, 17 MILF fighters and three civilians in clashes that erupted in the course of a covert government operation to get Malaysian terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir, or “Marwan.”
At the height of the fighting, Ladiasan and then MILF ceasefire secretariat head Butch Malang “were instrumental in mobilizing MILF commanders on the ground to restore the ceasefire, extricate the fallen and return the weapons and belongings of SAF troopers seized during the fighting,” the government peace panel said.
He was also “an important figure in defusing tensions, preventing the escalation of violence and even in the settlement of clan conflicts or ridos during his term as MILF ceasefire head,” it added.
Ladiasan also initially represented the MILF at the Senate investigation into Mamasapano, the first time a rebel organization appeared before a congressional inquiry, until he was replaced by MILF peace panel chair Mohagher Iqbal.
http://interaksyon.com/article/127671/head-of-milf-truce-monitoring-team-dies
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