Whilst the passage of the BBL may be an important step in quelling the long-running insurgency, it must be noted that previous peace agreements have not succeeded in ending the violence altogether.

He said Mamalompong, commander of the BIFF’s 2nd Division, who was also the spokesman of the militant group, and Nur Hamid were both slain in the fighting. In December, the BIFF launched a series of attacks targeting the indigenous Teduray tribe whilst attempting to seize pockets of territory in rural villages in Maguindanao province, setting fire to houses and killing several tribe members whilst driving thousands more from their homes. “Combined troops of  34th Infantry Battalion and Midsayap Municipal Police Station were serving warrants of arrest when they were fired upon by heavily  armed men under Mando Mamalompong that ensued a heavy exchanges of fire. Geopoliticalmonitor.com is a registered trade name of Geopoliticalmonitor Intelligence Corp. © 2020 Geopoliticalmonitor Intelligence Corp., All Rights Reserved | ISSN 1927-3045. you need to be logged in to access this page. President Duterte and MILF chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim have both warned of the radicalization risk. In a particularly worrying development, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has reported seeing ‘foreign-looking’ gunmen fighting alongside BIFF militants in Maguindanao province, indicating that terrorist fighters from elsewhere in Southeast Asia may have joined-up with the group.

[fn] “Clerics assume command of BIFF”, Philstar.com, 22 July 2016.Hide Footnote. Amidst uncertainty over its direction and leadership, the group pledged allegiance to Islamic State in late 2014. Also, members of the 23rd Army Mechanized Company, a unit of the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion, clashed for several hours with the armed men, one of them carrying an ISIS flag, at Sitio Maibunga in Barangay Malangog, Datu Saudi Ampatuan.

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The rise to prominence of radical groups such as Maute, and now the BIFF, comes at a crucial stage in the southern Philippines’ drawn-out peace process with the MILF, which has laid down its weapons since a provisional peace deal with the government was signed in 2014. Estimates of militant group numbers are … At the time, this was not viewed as a concern by the authorities and was seen as more of an attention-grabbing ploy aimed at aiding recruitment and boosting the group’s profile. Thank you again for supporting us.

In the three months since the jihadists of the ISIS-linked Maute group were routed by Philippine troops in Marawi, another radical band of Islamists have risen from the shadows to take their place as the vanguard of Islamic State in western Mindanao. Members of the Peace and Order Council (POC) confirmed that the BIFF made such attempts.

Major Gen. Carlito Galvez.
Whilst a small number of the BIFF’s members were thought to be present in Marawi, many of the group’s fighters remained in its heartlands elsewhere in western Mindanao. Local authorities have said they are monitoring the recruitment activities of jihadist groups in western Mindanao and are bracing themselves for another Marawi-style attack. Inquirer Mindanao / 06:34 PM July 05, 2017.
Your small donation will ensure the continued operation of the Mindanao Examiner Regional Newspaper. The threat from ISIS had become visible, having materialized itself on a large scale in Southeast Asia for the first time. Currently, lawmakers are debating the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) which would pave the way for a new autonomous region in the south to replace the existing Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), constituting a final negotiated end to hostilities with the largest groups in the Moro rebel movement. 6 BIFF men who pledged selves to ISIS nabbed in Maguindanao. “The successful operation is attributed to the information shared by the local residents who did not want terrorists’ presence in their area,” he said. In a November interview with Channel News Asia, the MILF leader said ‘the longer this process takes, the more people are going to be radicalized.’ Despite expressing his own frustration over the slow progress being made, Ebrahim has said the MILF remains firmly committed to the peace process and is staunchly opposed to radical groups such as the BIFF and Abu Sayyaf. The BIFF-ISIS connection and social media From Rappler (Sep 19): The BIFF-ISIS connection and social media Abu Misry Mama, BIFF spokesperson says, 'There was also a time that they directly communicated with Abu Bkr al-Baghdadi,' the self-proclaimed head of state of ISIS. Frustrated with the MILF’s decision to accept autonomy at the expense of full independence, Kato led around 300 former MILF comrades in a campaign of attacks targeting the military and civilians in rural areas across the provinces of Maguindanao and North Cotabato.

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