{"id":27300,"date":"2014-09-30T01:11:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=27300"},"modified":"2014-09-30T01:19:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:19:38","slug":"milf-to-begin-difficult-process-of-laying-weapons-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/30\/milf-to-begin-difficult-process-of-laying-weapons-down\/","title":{"rendered":"MILF to begin difficult process of laying weapons down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19755\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone.jpg\" alt=\"A Bangsamoro militant in training (Wikipedia photo)\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone.jpg 600w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MILF_militant_laying_prone-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bangsamoro militant in training (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u2014 After an armed Muslim insurgency spanning decades, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels now face a process which could prove a great challenge: it is time for them to begin to lay down their weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Peace negotiators for the MILF and the Philippine government said on Sunday that they anticipate the first batch of firearms to be removed from service before the end of 2014..<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations between both sides \u2013aimed at threshing out the process of disarmament \u2013 began in Malaysia on Saturday.\u00a0 Disarmament is one of the most crucial aspects in enforcing the peace treaty signed in March.<\/p>\n<p>To oversee the process of laying down the rebel\u2019s firearms, an independent panel consisting of three foreign expert from Brunei, Turkey and Norway; and four local experts who have yet to be appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, chief government negotiator, said in a statement: \u201cDecommissioning is a delicate and difficult component of any peace settlement. It must be done effectively and sensitively\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the side of the rebels, Chief MILF negotiator Mohagher Iqbal noted that \u201cdecommissioning firearms is really very difficult, but you have to undertake the ultimate sacrifice just to have the Bangsamoro;\u201d he said, as he cited the proposed expanded self-ruling autonomous region in Mindanao.<\/p>\n<p>Iqbal earlier pointed out that 75 assorted firearms would be stored in a warehouse padlocked for security, in line with the process of \u201cnormalization\u201d which is intended to integrate the rebels back into mainstream society.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will continue until Monday, with \u201cthe first order of business\u201d having been\u00a0 the submission\u00a0 of a list of weapons and rebel fighters by the MILF, Ferrer added.<\/p>\n<p>The peace deal aims to finally bring to an end four decades of armed conflict that has killed tens of thousands on both sides, and has created a volatile situation on the resource-rich island of Mindanao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR\u2014 After an armed Muslim insurgency spanning decades, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels now face a process which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":19755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,1145,95],"tags":[346,2170,8004,7136],"class_list":["post-27300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-bangsamoro","tag-milf","tag-milf-disarmament-process","tag-peace-treaty","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}