{"id":43184,"date":"2015-02-22T17:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T09:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=43184"},"modified":"2015-02-22T17:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T09:07:44","slug":"gazmin-orders-biff-forces-to-surrender-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/22\/gazmin-orders-biff-forces-to-surrender-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazmin orders BIFF forces to surrender immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40002\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40002\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/voltaire_gazmin_giaoducvietnam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40002\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/voltaire_gazmin_giaoducvietnam.jpg\" alt=\"Voltaire Gazmin (Photo courtesy of PixGood)\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/voltaire_gazmin_giaoducvietnam.jpg 621w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/voltaire_gazmin_giaoducvietnam-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/voltaire_gazmin_giaoducvietnam-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40002\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Voltaire Gazmin (Photo courtesy of PixGood)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BAGUIO CITY &#8212; As the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are conducting a joint tactical offensive against the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) in North Cotabato, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin has ordered the bandit group to surrender immediately.<\/p>\n<p>He warned that failing to do so would will result on the BIFF being exposed to the overwhelming firepower and might of the military.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said the BIFF forces have already experienced severe casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Gazmin said that the plan is to effectively neutralize the bandit group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If they will surrender, that&#8217;s fine, but if they will resist, the government will throw everything it has against them,&#8221; the DND chief said in Filipino.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the quick surrender of the group will ensure peace and prevent further bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p>Government and MILF forces conducted operations against the BIFF in an effort to neutralize and bring peace to areas being affected by the brigands.<\/p>\n<p>Gazmin said that the MILF requested support from the military, in the form of artillery, air support, and blocking units, in its drive against the BIFF.<\/p>\n<p>The DND chief added that there is no deadline for the ongoing operations against the bandits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGUIO CITY &#8212; As the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) are conducting &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95,483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","category-politics","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184","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=43184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}