BANGSAMORO NEWS UPDATES

ARMY CAMP
SIONGCO, Maguindanao – A young infantryman died while fighting the
ISIS-linked Moro rebel group in Maguindanao on Monday, the Army here said
today.

Lt. Colonel
Harold Cabunoc, the commander of the 33rd Infantry Battalion, identified
his slain subordinate as Private First Class Garry Quitor, 27 of Pigcawayan,
North Cotabato, who, Cabunoc said, died as a hero in defending the
Constitution.

MAGUINDANAO - Officials shut down schools in four Maguindanao towns due to tension sparked by Sunday’s airstrikes that destroyed a bomb-making facility of terrorists in the Liguasan Delta.Personnel of the Army’s 33rdInfantry Battalion recovered firearms, components for improvised explosive devices and roadside bombs in the makeshift building destroyed by rockets launched from helicopter gunships.Senior education officials in Maguindanao province said Monday classes in schools along the Liguasan Delta had been suspended for security reasons.The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, which lost

BASILAN --- It was a long and perilous walk from their jungle hideout to an Army camp in Sumisip, Basilan where they renounced violent religious extremism and pledge allegiance to the Philippine Flag.Ten Abu Sayyaf members led by a feared commander, Bobong Mastul, bolted on Friday and trustingly turned themselves in to Lt. Col.

MAGUINDANAO --- The new chief of the Army’s 6thInfantry Division was admitted member of the Maguindanao peace council to ensure cohesion in addressing religious extremism plaguing parts of the province.The Maguindanao provincial government has current socio-economic, health and education programs meant to weaken the influence of local militant blocs fomenting hatred to the police, the military and to non-Muslims.Gen. Cirilito Sobejana, who assumed commander of 6thID only last May 26, and the chairman of the Maguindanao provincial peace and order council, Gov.

MAGUINDANAO --- The latest recruits of the 6thInfantry Division are to become peace advocates, to serve and protect people with different faiths under the Philippine flag.This was emphasized Tuesday to this news outfit by the 6thID’s newly-installed commander, Gen.

COTABATO CITY - ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman is urging constituents in the region to continuously support the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) after both houses of Congress passed different versions of the law last week. Wala pang pinal na batas ngayon dahil magkakaroon pa ng bicameral conference ang both houses, Hataman said. Kung anuman ang kalalabasan ng BBL, hindi dapat tayo panghinaan ng loob na pagsilbihan ang ating mga kababayan, he said, addressing ARMM officials and employees during Monday's, June 04, flag ceremony at the region's seat in Cotabato City.

COTABATO CITY - The International Monitoring Team has urged stakeholders not to let the death of nine Moro guerillas in a police operation in North Cotabato on May 26 affect the southern peace process.The IMT, comprised of military and police officers from Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia and civilian uniformed conflict resolution experts from Japan, Norway and the European Union, is now investigating on the incident.The transnational peacekeeping contingent has been observing since 2004 the enforcement of an interim ceasefire pact forged by the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front t

GENERAL SANTOS CITY --- Two newly-elected barangay councilmen fell in separate entrapments laid by anti-narcotics agents in central Mindanao on Thursday.The first to fall wasJoehari Masulat Ali, a member of the barangay council in Sapalan in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao.Also arrested were his cohorts,Akmad Gani Maton and Tulon Kusap Sumail.They were frisked and immediatelycuffed by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao while selling shabu to a buyer who volunteered to help bust all three of them right in their lair near the town cente

COTABATO CITY - Gov.

PRES. QUIRINO, Sultan Kudarat -- Combined elements of the Army and police commandos seized a terrorist firearms factory after storming the notorious lair of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters inBarangay Tonggol, Gen. SK Pendatun, MaguindanaoMaguindanao early morning Tuesday.Lt Col Harold M Cabunoc, the Commanding Officer of the 33rdInfantry(Makabayan) Battalion, said that the target of the operations was the firearms factory of the terrorists in the area. We specifically targeted the firearms manufacturing capability of the BIFF.