Despite improvements in the peace and order situation in Mindanao, soldiers should stick to their expertise as “warfighters” even while playing the role of peacekeepers as their fight is not yet finished, President Marcos said yesterday.
MANILA, Philippines —
Despite these positive developments, the President noted that some soldiers still get wounded in armed encounters. Before talking to the troops, Marcos honored seven soldiers wounded in a clash with the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters at the Camp Siongco Station Hospital. Marcos praised the Western Mindanao Command, the Joint Task Force Central and the 6th ID for their efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism.
The President was at Camp Siongco in Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao del Norte, where the 6th ID’s headquarters is located, yesterday afternoon after his sorties in Parang and Barira towns and Pikit, Cotabato. In the latest heat index bulletin of PAGASA, the state weather bureau said that 36 areas in the country will be under the...
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