WHILE the Aquino administration has been euphoric about the signing in Kuala Lumpur of the final annex (on the subject of “normalization”) to the proposed “final peace agreement” between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the government military was waging war against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters. The BIFF is supposed to be a renegade MILF army. It has indeed been involved in battles with government military. It has raided parts of Mindanao populated mainly by Christians, causing death and destruction.
The military commanders have apparently acted with the approval of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) high command, and presumably with the okay as well of the AFP Commander in Chief President Benigno Cojuangco Aquino.
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