SAUDI AMPATUAN, Maguindanao, Philippines -- More than 90 percent of 700
families displaced by government offensives against the outlawed ISIS-inspired
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) have returned home.
The internally displaced persons (IDPs) are now in their respective
homes after the Army provided them security and transportation from public
schools in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao.
The IDPs, who have to endure both floods and armed hostilities, are now
safe, according to Army Capt. John Encinas, spokesperson of the Army’s 6th
Infantry Division.
”We are preventing publicity by the BIFF, thus clashes erupted Thursday
and Friday,” he said.
Encinas said the ISIS-inspired BIFF tried, but failed, to raise the
black flag in the towns of Shariff Saydona, Shariff Aguak, Mamasapano and Datu
Salibo due to active government forces' reaction to residents’ tip that armed
men were massing in the four towns.
”We laud our village officials, they are doing great jobs,” Encinas
said.
Six BIFF fighters have been killed in the Maguindanao Army-led
operation since the Marawi siege. One of them was believed to be an Indonesian
jihadist.
Encinas said Brig. Gen. Arnel dela Vega, 6th ID chief, is determined to
crush the BIFF in Maguindanao. (EOF/PNA) posted by Becky D. de Asis -The Redline News
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