COTABATO CITY -- The Ministry of Social Services of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (MOSS-ARMM) intensified Wednesday its humanitarian mission in seven towns of Maguindanao where some 6,595 families have been displaced by the ongoing skirmishes between military forces and the Islamic State-inspired Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF).
“It (relief operation) will go on full swing today (Wednesday) amid drizzles in Maguindanao area due to a low-pressure area affecting the province,” said Myrna Jocelyn Henry, information officer of the BARMM Humanitarian Emergency Action Response Team (HEART).
The BARMM-HEART is a confluence of various regional agencies, which includes MOSS-BARMM, tasked to provide coordinated actions to limit the impact of disasters in the region.
On Monday, the BARMM HEART, together with the Maguindanao People’s Medical Team, served evacuees at the town of Shariff Aguak where the bulk of the displaced families are staying at several evacuation centers.
Other affected towns are Mamasapano, Datu Salibo, Datu Saudi Ampatuan, Datu Unsay, Datu Piang, and Shariff Saydona Mustapha.
On Tuesday, at least 812 families from the towns of Datu Unsay, Datu Salibo, and Datu Saudi Ampatuan received food packs containing six kilos of rice, canned goods and packs of coffee during a relief operation.
“The relief operation is continuing and intensified to attend to the needs of the displaced people,” Henry said.
Henry noted that most the evacuees were from Datu Shariff Saydona Mustapha and many of them fled to the towns of Datu Salibo and Datu Saudi Ampatuan as well as in Shariff Aguak to escape the raging conflict.
The focused military operations against the BIFF began on March 11 after the terror group-initiated attacks on both Army installations and state troopers in the province.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1065096
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