A long standing family feud that has been brewing and
causing misery among locals in a Maguindanaon town has been settled, officials
said on Saturday,
Through the Maguindanao Task Force for Reconciliation and
Unification, two Moro families locked in long standing family feud, agreed to
bury their misunderstanding and live harmoniously in the town of Sultan
Engineer Abdulrakman Asim, task force technical working
group member, said the elders of the families Felmin and Emran signed a peace
covenant where they agreed not to use violence in settling dispute.
Both families have relatives and family members who belonged
to the 105th base command of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
The conflict between two families started when two of the
members of Felmin family were killed by members of Emran family. The Felmin
family tried to retaliate triggering massive evacuation among residents in remote
Sultan sa Barongis village.
Asim said the Emran family agreed to pay blood money to
Felmin clan upon intervention by the task force.
Maguindanao Governor Esmael Toto Mangudadatu helped in
providing the blood money so the family will cease from using violence that
will also affected non-family member residents of the village. The blood money
costs Php600,000.
To date, the clan wars, locally known as "rido,"
that the task force have resolved reached to more than 50.
Asim said the reconciliation of warring families through
peaceful settlement agreeable to all parties was among the top eight-point
agenda of Mangudadatu after he was reelected to his last term as provincial
executive.
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