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May 9, 2021 | 7:52 pm
Children on the move to safer ground in Datu Paglas town in Maguindanao on May 8, 2021. â 601ST INFANTRY UNIFIER BRIGADE
THERE were no civilian or military casualties in Saturdayâs encounter between government forces and members of an extremist group in a commercial area of Datu Paglas town in Maguindanao, according to the countryâs military chief.
An estimated 20 members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF)Â attempted but failed to occupy the townâs public market located along the national highway, according to Armed Forces of the Philippinesâ Chief of Staff Cirilito E. Sobejana.
The BIFF is a breakaway group from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) that signed a peace deal with the government and are currently at the forefront of the new autonomous region in Mindanao.
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+ April 18, 2021 DEFENSE Secretary Delfin Lorenzana on Sunday, April 18, 2021, denied a social media post alleging that a group of retired and active military officers had threatened to withdraw support for President Rodrigo Duterte over his failure to denounce the presence of Chinese ships in the West Philippine Sea (WPS).
Lorenzana described the post made by Twitter account @infopsph as “irresponsible propaganda.”
“Such disinformation is an act of reckless agitation emanating from detractors,” Lorenzana said.
“We call on these destabilizers to cease from propagating malicious statements especially at a time when our people should all be coming together in the face of the challenges that we are all currently facing. You are not helping our country and people at all,” he added.
Published March 10, 2021, 5:43 PM
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Cirilito E. Sobejana on Wednesday said controversial Lt. General Antonio Parlade Jr. may stay as spokesman of the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (NTF-ELCAC) despite calls for him to quit his civilian post at NTF-ELCAC.
Lt. Gen. Cirilito E. Sobejana
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Sobejana said he supports statements that AFP is part of that Task Force and there is no way the AFP would overrule such statements.
He, however, conceded that the NTF ELCAC has a civilian component.
The chairman of NTF-ELCAC is the President who is the Commander in Chief.