The Palace official also said the MILF should also help the
government in the identification and prosecution of the MILF and the Bangsamoro
Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) combatants who killed the 44 SAF troopers.
Coloma clarified that the three conditions have been
mentioned by President Benigno S. Aquino III in his address to the nation last
February 6.
”In the same speech, the President has also mentioned the
need for the government and the MILF to pursue the path that would lead to the
lasting peace in Mindanao ,” Coloma said in a
press briefing in Malacanang.
”It is only proper to understand that those requests,
according to the President, would give concrete manifestation if the MILF can
be trusted as partner by the government,” he added.
Coloma said failure to heed to these requests would mean
“that their cooperation with the government” is not complete.
Deliberations both by the Senate and the House of
Representatives on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) have been suspended
to give way to the ongoing inquiries on the bloody Mamasapano encounter.
On January 25, the 392-member SAF team encountered the
combined forces of the MILF and the BIFF while carrying out a mission to arrest
Usman and Malaysian bomb maker Zulkifli Abdhir alias Marwan.
Marwan, a notorious bomb expert who has link with
international terrorist group Jeemah Islamiyah, was killed but Usman, a BIFF
commander, managed to escape.
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