At recent rhetoric last week MILF 's murad warns of catasthrophic war if their demand for ancenstral domain is not granted.
Maybe during the Ramos time the GRP might blink, they made a mistake in 2000 a mad man name ERap was occupying malacanang and was busy on its usual immoral coruption issues.
In 1996 onwards the MILF getting bolder and begins to gain strenght and wants to show its stuff attacking and bombming bragging about their suppose strenght year after year finaly when the MILF placed roadblocks along the Talayan-Shariff Aguak National Highway and occupied the Talayan Municipal Hall and comander BRAVOs antics in 2000 and carving a territory and try to immpose its owns sovereignty , and even impose it's sharia law on a public display firring squad in fulll press view local and international executions of "2 convicted criminal under the MILF sharia judiciary" it can not be ignored anymore. Thought it's true by year 2000 the MILF is capable of batalion size formations 300 to 900 men which is very dangerous considering it is shifting in conventional warfare tactics far from MILF, MNLF classic commander led formations of 30 to 150 men.
They took advantage of the GRP MNLF peace pact lying low after the treaty was signed by EDDIE and NUR.
Thay stock weapons including m-50 machine guns ,m60s lmg, great amount ammo and ordinace,manage to stock pile 81mm 60mm mortars, b40s rockets and also manage to learned and produce it own RPG-2 and some local variants which able to handle AFP's best of the best armor on some lucky pot shots includes at least one penetrating frontal armor m113-apc ,one back side of a marine V300 apc , one thru and thru the side of army's FV101 Scorpion LT their camps are well protected with connections and relatives in the MNLF run ARMM manage to divert DPWH funds for irrigation instead was use to build a concrete bunkers and trenches hidden with natural lawn of weeds and grass trees..etcc. .....
but despite to all of this crap the Marines and Army and some 5000 MNLF integrees was able to squash their self proclaimed county destroying their camps includings JDV peace nobel wanna be diplomacy gift of donated solar powered generator in camp abubakar and their conventional dream and push them back to guerrila type hypes.
BUt still its the locals who defended their local territory, governors, small town mayors barangay chiefs with cafgus and CVOs and local police stood firm against the attacking marauding milf rebels year after years until the political will order came out and calvaries of ARMy battalions, Ranger companies and the dogs of war the Marines was release and decimated them
seems GRP are taking in the position of strenght
should GRP give in and give more than what it give to the MNLF a bigger group if united
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