Published January 26, 2021, 1:59 PM
DAVAO CITY – An independent peace building organization noted that violent extremism in the island province of Sulu has taken on “a new form” since 2019.
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) desecrated a Catholic Chapel following an attack in a remote village in Pigcawayan,North Cotabato. (Manila Bulletin / File / Keith Bacongco)
The Conflict Alert 2020 report bared that suicide bombings perpetrated by female, Filipino, and foreign extremists were now being recorded in Sulu.
“Wracked by suicide bombings, with reports of continued recruitment and radicalization among youth and women, Sulu is on course towards reclaiming its notorious identification with terrorism,” the Conflict Alert 2020 report titled Enduring Wars, noted.
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Published January 25, 2021, 5:41 PM
DAVAO CITY – The latest comprehensive report of Conflict Alert showed that an increasing number of clan feuding and land related conflicts in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) is threatening the region’s momentum to achieving peace.
Young school girls pass by an Army outpost along the highway in Mamasapano, Maguindanao. ( MANILA BULLETIN / FILE / KEITH BACONGCO)
Conflict Alert is a subnational conflict monitoring system focused on Mindanao and developed by the Philippines Programme of the independent peace building organization International Alert.
According to the report released on Monday (Jan. 25), “the highest concentrations of clan feuds were in Lanao del Sur (64, up by 64 percent) and in Maguindanao, including Cotabato City (56, up by 22 percent).”
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VIOLENT incidents in the Bangsamoro continued to decline in 2019, the first year of the transition period under the new regional government, according to International Alert Philippines’ latest conflict report released Monday.
The organization’s conflict monitoring system recorded 2,655 violent incidents in 2019, down 9% from 2,910 in 2018. In the two previous years, violent incidents stood at 4,363 and 4,140 in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
The decline was sustained in the first half of 2020 as restrictions were imposed to contain the coronavirus outbreak, based on the report titled
Conflict Alert 2020: Enduring Wars.
International Alert Philippines Country Director Nikki C. de la Rosa, however, warned of the continued “many pockets and corners” of clan feuds and disputes over resources, especially land.