Moro rebels undergo combat training inside military camps
If they qualify, they can be absorbed either in the Armed Forces or in the Philippine National Police.||| |||buy inderal online with |||
The government also has to train 1,600 policemen and 1,400 military personnel from outside the MILF to compose a 6,000-strong combined security forces.
Primarily, they will be tasked to secure officials performing the decommissioning process of other MILF fighters, particularly the International Decommissioning Body (IDB).
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez greets MILF fighters undergoing military training. MindaNews photo by FERDINANDH CABRERA
Their task also covers the transport of MILF members set to be decommissioned who will deposit their firearms in a designated site. The former combatants will then be brought to a processing area where they will be interviewed and profiled until they are brought back to their respective communities.
Presidential Peace Adviser Carlito Galvez said members of JPST will also help the police and the military in the fight against terrorism and illegal drugs in their respective communities.
Galvez told the trainees that once they complete the training, they will form part of the legal security and peacekeepers in their respective communities.
Abdulraof Macacua, chief of the Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces (BIAF) of the MILF, said he too never thought his subordinates will set foot inside an Army camp and be given training by government soldiers, their erstwhile enemies.
OPAPP Assistant Secretary Dickson Hermoso, himself a military man who retired recently, explained the issue of parity as far as the MILF and security forces are concerned.||| |||buy stromectol online with |||
Under the law, only Philippine soldiers and police are allowed to carry guns. “With this arrangement, the MILF will become like reservists and they will secure the decommissioning area,” Hermoso said. (Ferdinandh Cabrera / MindaNews)
