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Former adversaries in Mindanao jointly conduct humanitarian activities
- Oct 22, 2024
- Al Iskandar, Luwaran
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A Philstar report, Sunday, October 20 says the events kicked off with a shooting competition among personnel from its units and a gathering of retired soldiers, who received free medical and dental services.
Major Gen. Antonio Nafarrete, commander of the 6th ID, told reporters on Sunday, October 20, that the division held a simple banquet to honor retired personnel from its units, expressing appreciation for their key roles in its peace and security missions during their active service, the report also said.
“We cannot thank them enough. We are grateful to all of them,” Nafarrete told reporters.
Bangsamoro Labor Minister Muslimin Sema, chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front, told reporters that the 6th ID has evolved from a state “fighting machine” aimed at quelling the Moro uprising in Central Mindanao to a partner of its former enemies, the MNLF and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. They seek to further the security and community-empowerment agenda of Malacañang’s separate peace agreements with both fronts.
“Our members had figured in bloody clashes with units of the division in the 1980s until the early 1990s. Now we see its personnel visiting our enclaves in Central Mindanao as peacebuilders, rescuing people from floods, extending support, giving out food and medicines to calamity-affected families and helping resolve family feuds among big Moro families,” Sema said.
The MILF who are represented by its senior officials separately told reporters on Sunday that units of the 6th ID helped them and local government executives settle amicably at least 27 bloody clan wars, involving big Moro groups, in the past six years.
Besides representatives from the Bangsamoro regional government who belong to both the MILF and the MNLF, they are expecting high officials of the Philippine Army and the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region to grace this week's culmination program of their 10-day commemoration of the 6th ID’s 37th founding anniversary, Nafarrete said as quoted by reporters.
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