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In another terrorism trial in the Philippines, a MILF member testified that he had helped JI to bomb a railway station in Manila, the capital.The MILF announced this week that its leader, Salamat Hashim, had died of a heart attack last month, soon after he had denounced terrorism and promised to eradicate any terrorists from his movement.
In doing so, the court convinced some MILF rebels that the peace effort was hopeless and that they should form the BIFF, and return to war.
The casualty ratio suggests the police fell into an ambush.The MILF and the government say the fighting between their forces was accidental.
But even if the government eventually manages to make peace with the MILF as well as the MNLF, a Mindanao infested by armed ex-rebels without a cause will hardly be conducive to development.
In particular, one witness testified that he had trained in the Philippines at a camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a local Muslim secessionist group, before bombing a McDonald's restaurant in Indonesia.
Some recent bombings appear to have been the work of communists, rather than Islamists; others are too mysterious to be blamed on the MILF.Although the government says that it is committed both to eradicating the MILF and to improving living standards for everyone else, the military campaign is making it harder to win overseas assistance for the region.
The MILF is the most important in a range of armed groups that have been fighting for independence for the majority-Muslim areas.
The Ampatuan alleged to be the mastermind of the massacre blamed it on Muslim separatists of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which this week resumed peace talks (in Kuala Lumpur) with the government after a hiatus of over a year.
That, says Abdullah Dimaporo, a congressman from Mindanao, is why it should strike any deal it can with the MILF, simply for the sake of buying time for development.
But last October the government and the main rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), signed a preliminary agreement to give Muslim areas greater autonomy in exchange for peace.
The Philippines remains awash with Muslim armed groups: the MILF, the MNLF, Abu Sayyaf, myriad criminal gangs and now the Royal Army of the Sultanate of Sulu.
