Kalinaw News: 11ID joins the MNLF 54TH Founding Anniversary Celebration

Posted to Kalinaw News (Mar 20, 2022): 11ID joins the MNLF 54TH Founding Anniversary Celebration



Kuta Heneral Teodulfo Bautista Jolo, Sulu – As the Moro National Liberation Front was founded in commemoration of so-called Jabidah Massacre on March 18, 1968, the 11th Infantry Division joined its 54th Founding Anniversary celebration held at Camp Astana Mt. Dragon Bakud, Brgy Kagay, Indanan, Sulu on Friday of March 18, 2022.

Sec. Gen. of MNLF Ustadz Murshi Ibrahim recalls their organization’s history on how Professor Nur R. Misuari founded the MNLF. He shared what happened on the past and what they stand for today as he emphasized their advocacy for peace. He also expressed the group’s willingness to cooperate with the government’s thrust on transformation program package. “When we signed the peace agreement on 1996, the MNLF assured that we will utmost uphold peace advocacy. We do not want war because it will only bring suffering and it is uncivilized. We hope that the coordination with AFP, OPAPP, BARMM and other government agencies will continue”, he said.

The 11th ID and Joint Task Force Sulu Commander Maj. Gen. Ignatius N Patrimonio was represented by 1102nd Infantry Brigade Executive Officer Col. Sali Limpahong who was born in Sulu and has many relatives in Indanan together with Lt. Col. Saupi Julkanain who was a former member of MNLF and a recipient of the MNLF Integration to AFP as they both voiced the Commander’s message of peace. “Nawa’y panatilihin natin na laging bukas ang linya ng usapan, at higit sa lahat, ay ang tiwala sa bawat-isa at pagtutulungan upang harapin ang mga pagsubok ng hinaharap tungo sa kapayapaan dito sa probinsya ng Sulu”, as the Commander’s statement.

OPAPP coordinator to MNLF Ms. Maria Magdalena Barrios represented the Presidential Adviser for Peace, Reconciliation and Unity Sec. Carlito G Galvez, Jr. and extended his message on government’s thrust to deliver the transformation program package to Peace-inclined groups. She also re-echoed the purpose of their profiling program to validate bonafide members of former MNLF combatants and its families as beneficiaries of government’s support program.

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