ZAMBOANGA CITY – Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said that ground commanders have filed a protest against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the bloody encounter in Sumisip, Basilan on Wednesday, Jan. 22.
ZAMBOANGA CITY – Armed Forces of the Philippines chief Gen. Romeo Brawner Jr. said that ground commanders have filed a protest against the Moro Islamic Liberation Front for the bloody encounter in Sumisip, Basilan on Wednesday, Jan. 22.
Brawner, in a press briefing at the Armed Forces Western Mindanao Command Hospital here, said that all ground commanders assigned at the Western Mindanao Command area of responsibility have filed a protest letter before the MILF after finding out that some of its members were involved in the ambush that killed two soldiers and wounded 12 others.
Soldiers were traversing the road in Barangay Lower Cabengbeng when they were fired at by a small group of lawless elements. Soldiers returned fire but in the course of the firefight, they noticed that the lawless elements increased in number. The ground commander wrote a protest letter through the Government Panel for Hostilities-Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities.
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