CAMP SIONGCO, Maguindanao --- Optimistic that the new regional government
will help them improve their lives, 16 members of the Islamic State-linked
Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) surrendered to military authorities
in Maguindanao last January 25.
Twelve
of the surrenderers gave up to officials of the Army’s 33rd Infantry Battalion,
led by Lt. Col. Elmer Boongaling, in Sultan sa Barongis town, while the four
other BIFF members yielded to Lt. Col. Rogelio Gabi, Army’s 40th IB commander,
in Gen. S. K. Pendatun town, also in Maguindanao.
