The decommissioning of the combatants of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is set to officially start early next month, the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) said.
The decommissioning of the former combatants and their weapons will commence on September 7, it said.
Under the Normalization Track of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) between the Government of the Philippine (GPH) and the MILF, the decommissioning process aims to transform former rebels into peaceful and productive members of society and put their weapons beyond use.
Abdulraof Macacua, Minister of the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao’s (BARMM) Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Energy, acknowledged that “of all the aspects of the Annex on Normalization, the decommissioning is the hardest act to be done by our combatants.”
“We will be turning over our guns to the Independent Decommissioning Body or IDP even if the security situation in our communities is not yet stable,” he said.
But he said the MILF “will honor and abide by the CAB that we signed with the GPH.”
OPAPP earlier said that for this year, 30 percent or at least 12,000 MILF combatants would be decommissioned. Another 35 percent would be next year, while the remaining would be done in 2021-2022 before the signing of the exit agreements.
The MILF has estimated that there are 30,000 to 40,000 MILF fighters.
https://mindanao.politics.com.ph/milf-fighters-decommissioning-to-start-sept-7-opapp/
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