DWDD: PEACE ATTAINED | JTF Ranao facilitates end to Bloody Clan War in Lanao del Sur

From DWDD AFP Civil Relations Service Radio Website (Jan 23): PEACE ATTAINED  |  JTF Ranao facilitates end to Bloody Clan War in Lanao del Sur

     

KUTA MAJOR CESAR L SANG-AN, Pulacan Labangan, Zamboanga del Sur (DWDD) – The Joint Task Force “Ranao” facilitated the settlement of a decades old “Rido” or violent family feud between the two big political clans in Lanao del Sur today.

Colonel Generoso M Ponio INF (GSC) PA, Commander of 103rd Infantry Brigade under Joint Task Force “Ranao” led the settlement of the violent family feud or “Rido” between the families of Tugaya Municipal Mayor Al Fatah Pacalna Balindong and Bacolod Kalawi Municipal Vice Mayor Jafar Dipatuan.

The end to the violent family feud was concluded when the two (2) heads of the families swore on the Holy Qur’an to settle their “Rido.” The familes surrendered twenty-four (24) high-powered firearms to symbolize their resolve to conclude the long-time violent family feud. The weapons surrendered included two (2) caibel .50 sniper “Barret” rifles; six (6) 7.62 millimeter M14 rifles; seven (7) 5.56 millimeter M16 rifles; four (4) 40 millimeter M203 Grenade Launchers; three (3)40 millimenter M79 Grenade Launchers; one (1) caliber .30 Machine Gun and one (1) caliber .30 Browning Automatic Rifle.

Major General Roseller G Murillo AFP, 1ST Infantry “Tabak” Division and concurrent Joint Task Force “Ranao” Commander congratulated all the parties involved in the peaceful settlement of the decades old violent family feud.

“I commend the 103RD Infantry Brigade for the successful mediation that led to this peaceful settlement of a violent family feud that has cost the deaths of many from both sides and affected the the peace in the area for so many years”, he added.

The just settled bloody feud was reportedly decades old with two (2) of the more recent incidents being the shooting of one of the scions of the Dipatuan Clan in a busy commercial area of Iligan City last November 13, 2017 and the wounding of four (4) and the displacement of more than 200 families when a hour-long gun-battle between the clans erupted in Bacolod Kalawi town last January 5, 2018.

The settlement was achieved with the active participation of Provincial Vice-Governor Mamintal “Bombit” Adiong Jr of Lanao del Sur, the provincial Philippine National Police (PNP) units, Local Religious Leaders, and other members of civil society and the local government at Headquarters, 103rd Infantry Brigade, Kampo Ranao, Marawi City. JTF RANAO / 1ID / MCAG

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