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Philippines: AFP Denounces Actions of MNLF Renegade Leader

AFP DENOUNCES MALIK?S ACTIONS, BITAN-AG COMPLEX OVERRUN BY AFP TROOPS

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN MINDANAO COMMAND. LTGEN EUGENIO V CEDO AFP, the commander of the Western Mindanao Command denounces the series of attacks by renegade MNLF leader Habier Ustadz Malik and his group launched against military troops in Panamao, Sulu including the Municipal building of Panamao which killed 1 civilian and wounding another. The lawless group began their attack in the evening of April 13, Friday and sustaining their attack against the Marine Company in Luuk and the SOCOM in Talipao in the morning of April 14.

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Philippines Determined to Stop Human Rights Violations

MANILA — Malacanang assured today that more than anyone else, the Philippine government is determined to put an end to the issue of political violence and human rights violations in the country.

Press Secretary and concurrent Presidential Spokesperson Ignacio R. Bunye said the government is “working in an open and transparent way” and with the support of international partners to put an end to human rights violations.

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Philippines: Arroyo Asks SSS to Hike Pensions By 10%

MANILA — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo asked the Social Security System (SSS), which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, to once again increase the pension of SSS members and beneficiaries by 10 percent.

Speaking at the agency?s 2nd National Account Officers (AO) convention at the Great Eastern Hotel in Quezon City, the President said the proposed increase comes on the heels of an earlier 10 percent raise that she had also requested last September.

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Renewed Fighting in Philippines Will Not Affect elections — Gov’t

MANILA — Malacanang assured the public today that the ongoing conflict between government troops and a breakaway group of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) in Sulu would definitely not affect the forthcoming elections in the province.

Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said in his regular weekly press briefing in Malacanang the government is doing its best to ensure that the renewed fighting in Panamao town between the military and the group of MNLF commander Uztads Habier Malik will not affect other municipalities in Sulu.

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Philippines: GRP-MILF Peace Talks to Resume After Polls

The stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are expected to resume after the elections.

Assistant Secretary Evelyn Daplas of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said the peace talks, which reached an impasse late last year, would resume ?as soon as possible, maybe within a month.?

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