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Moro Liberation MILF To Cowardly AFP: Stop Your Wild Claims On Combat Victories
10 June 2009
A sub-commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) 105th Base Command under Sheikh Ameril Ombra Kato has advised Lt. Col. Jonathan Ponce, spokesman of the 6th Infantry Division of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stop making wild claims which are based solely on concoctions, hearsays and fantasies. The commander, who refused to be identified during an interview with www.luwaran.com reporter, described Ponce’s claim as a menu for seeking the pleasure of the “lords” in Manila and to seek early promotion in ranks. He said how could the AFP capture camps of the MILF when we do not have camps since 2000 when then president (and now deposed) Joseph Estrada launched all-out war against the MILF. He accused the AFP of describing those groups of houses, mostly makeshifts as camp, in order to cover up their crime of burning civilian houses after looting them of all valuables. He also disputed Jonathan’s claim that the MILF suffered 35 killed and as many wounded, saying this is another invention of a dirty mind intended to mislead people and the international community that the MILF is losing the government winning. “Can you imagine he is claiming that the MILF is burning the houses of civilians who are their relatives or supporters?” the sub-commander asked. “God willing! we cannot lose this war,” he said in complete ease, stressing that we are not like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka, who are extremist nationalists and who got the ire of the international community when they resorted to terrorism.” “Our tactics are very fluid,” he said, “and we can hit the enemy every time we want. He said if the AFP is winning, it is on the destruction of the civilians by burning their houses (2,000 were already burned in Maguindanao by state forces), indiscriminate shelling, bombing, and strafing, summary executions, arrests, and lootings. Ponce said intense air assaults backed by artillery fire on the ground led to the capture of the MILF camps near the town of Guindulungan in Maguindanao province on Sunday. Ponce, though, said no other details of the captured camps could be made available. He said the number of dead rebels also rose to 35, with 28 wounded, while government forces suffered five wounded in action. Military reports from the field said the bodies of slain rebels were retrieved from shallow graves dug by the MILF.
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