From the Philippine Star (Jun 20, 2024): Hundreds displaced as 2 Moro Islamic Liberation Front groups clash in Maguindanao del Sur (By John Unson)
Moro villagers who have fled from the conflict-stricken Sitio Irrigation in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao del Sur are now in makeshift evacuation sites. Photo courtesy of Philstar.com / John Unson
COTABATO CITY — Some 200 villagers have fled to neutral grounds as two rival groups in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front clashed and reportedly set houses on fire in a secluded area in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday morning.
Brig. Gen. Prexy Tanggawohn, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, and Major Gen. Alex Rillera, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, on Thursday morning urged the central committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to reconcile Commanders Panzo and Tunga to preclude more clashes between them that can displace more innocent villagers.
COTABATO CITY — Some 200 villagers have fled to neutral grounds as two rival groups in the Moro Islamic Liberation Front clashed and reportedly set houses on fire in a secluded area in Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay, Maguindanao del Sur on Wednesday morning.
Brig. Gen. Prexy Tanggawohn, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, and Major Gen. Alex Rillera, commander of the Army’s 6th Infantry Division, on Thursday morning urged the central committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front to reconcile Commanders Panzo and Tunga to preclude more clashes between them that can displace more innocent villagers.
The groups of Panzo, who is a senior member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s 118th Base Command, and Tunga, one of the commanders in the front’s 105th Base Command, figured in running gunfights in Sitio Irrigation, Barangay Meta in Datu Unsay early Wednesday, displacing Moro villagers.
Senior police officials in Maguindanao del Sur and local executives told reporters that followers of the two Moro Islamic Liberation Front commanders, are locked in intense political differences and squabbling for control of strategic patches of lands in Barangay Meta, had set several houses on fire before they disengaged when they sensed that responding policemen and soldiers were closing in.
The villagers displaced by the incident are now in a covered court in the municipality while others have sought refuge in houses of relatives in barangays nearby.
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/06/20/2364287/hundreds-displaced-2-milf-groups-clash-maguindanao-del-sur
https://www.philstar.com/nation/2024/06/20/2364287/hundreds-displaced-2-milf-groups-clash-maguindanao-del-sur
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