Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez Jr. says he is confident that the agreement would hold.
“We are happy to announce that a ceasefire agreement has been signed by the GPH and MILF, which brings to an end the armed encounter between government troops and MILF forces,” said David Diciano, head of the OPAPRU’s Bangsamoro Transformation Program. “We are also hopeful that armed clashes such as these will not happen again so as not to undermine the major gains we have achieved under the Bangsamoro peace process,” Galvez said.
The military counted three soldiers dead while BARMM Education Minister Mohagher Iqbal, the chairman of the MILF peace implementing panel, said at least four MILF members were killed in the hostilities since Tuesday, November 8. The military said the return had been coordinated, but Malangka’s group was asked beforehand not to arm themselves.
The parties agreed to inform the BIAF’s 114th Base Command and government troops to hold their fire because of the agreement, cause the withdrawal of MILF reinforcements, and allow the group of Malangka and his companions to stay in the village of Ulitan on condition that they would keep their weapons in their houses until their decommissioning.
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