Mindanao Armed Conflict

COTABATO CITY - Stakeholders were elated with Tuesday’s deployment of a battalion-size Special Action Force contingent in Pikit, Cotabato to help address the nagging security problems in the municipality. 

The SAF is an elite combat-ready unit of the Philippine National Police, ready for more extensive and intricate law-enforcement operations.

COTABATO CITY --- Soldiers shot dead a recalcitrant regional official of the New People’s Army in a bungled attempt to arrest him peacefully in T’boli, South Cotabato on Saturday, Feb. 18.

Martin Min Fay, vice chief of the NPA’s self-styled Front Organizational Command for Central Mindanao-Far South Mindanao Region, died on the spot from multiple gunshot wounds.

Fay, an ethnic T’boli tribesman, was wanted for 13 criminal cases, including arson and multiple murder, pending in different courts in the adjoining South Cotabato and Sarangani provinces in Region 12.

COTABATO CITY - Dumating ang dagdag na mga police sa BARMM upang tumulong sa pagpapanatili ng kaayusan at katahimikan sa rehiyon.  

ANG 100 strong police force ay personal na sinalubong ni BARMM police regional director Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon sa Camp SK Pendatun, Parang, Maguindanao.del Norte kahapon.

Karamihan sa mga pulis ay nagmula pa sa Luzon at Visayas na pinadala ni PNP Chief RODOLFO Azurin JR. Karamihan sa kanila ay itatalaga sa Pikit na tutulong na mapanatili ang peace and order kasunod ng mga nangyayaring patayan sa bayan.

COTABATO CITY - Members of a police-led special investigation task group now looking into Friday’s ambush of the governor of Lanao del Sur are optimistic they can soon identify and prosecute the people behind it. 

Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, told reporters Monday local officials in the province and traditional Maranao leaders have assured of their support to the SITG’s effort to put closure to the incident.

“The SITG is now working towards that goal,” Guyguyon said.

KIDAPAWAN CITY – Naglaan na ng mas malaking halaga ang Local Government Unit ng Pikit, North Cotabato para sa agarang pagkakahuli ng mga responsable sa pamamaril sa bayan.

Mula sa 100,000 naging 400,000 pesos na ang alok na reward money sa makakapagturo o makakapagbigay ng impormasyon sa kinaruruonan ng mga suspect sa serye ng shooting incident.

P200,000 para kay Fahad Guimalon na 13-anyos na estudyante nitong February 14 at P200,000 rin para sa kaso ni Jose Neri Gonzales nito namang February 13.

TACURONG CITY --- Soldiers killed here Saturday a local terrorist wanted for the fatal ambush of a town police chief and an escort last year in Maguindanao del Sur and other heinous offenses, including coddling of drug dealers.

Abdulkarim Lumbatan Hashim, most known as Commander Jacket of the outlawed Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, and a still unidentified companion, died on the spot from multiple bullet wounds sustained in the brief gunfight in the premises of the bus terminal here.

UNICEF is deeply concerned by the reported shooting incident that killed one child and injured two while on their way home from school in Pikit, North Cotabato. We offer our condolences to the family of the 13 year-old boy who died yesterday. The killing of innocent children is unacceptable and must stop.

Opisyal na pahayag ng Kagawaran sa pamamaril sa Pikit, Cotabato noong Pebrero 14, 2023

Benjamin Abalos, Jr.

DILG Secretary

Kinokondena ng Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ang walang saysay na pamamaril sa Pikit, Cotabato kahapon, Pebrero 14, 2023, na bumiktima sa mga inosenteng mag-aaral ng Pikit National High School.

COTABATO CITY - Probers are still clueless on Monday’s fatal ambush in Lambayong, Sultan Kudarat of an election officer in a troubled town in Maguindanao del Sur province.

Haviv Macabangen Maindan, an ethnic Maguindanaon, municipal election officer of Sultan sa Barongis town in Maguindanao del Sur, died on the spot from bullet wounds when gunmen on motorcycles, positioned along a highway in Lambayong, shot his vehicle and immediately sped away.

MANILA – The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Tuesday vowed to seek justice for its election officer in Maguindanao del Sur province who was shot dead in Lambayong town, Sultan Kudarat province.

"The Commission on Elections strongly condemns the brazen killing of Mr. Haviv M. Maindan, Election Officer II of Sultan sa Barongis, Maguindanao. The whole Commission on Elections commit to the family of EO Maindan that we will not rest until justice is served," the poll body said in a press statement.