Friday, February 13, 2009

MILF leader yields to government in Mindanao

Pantao Ragat Mayor Eleanor Lantud of Lanao del Norte, left, presents a Moro Islamic Liberation Front political leader and financier Hadji Ali Batua Gandamatu, who handed over an MP9 sub-machinegun to Colonel Benito de Leon, commander of the Army’s 104th Infantry Brigade during a ceremony on Friday, February 13, 2009. Mayor Lantud facilitated Gandamatu’s defection to the government. The rebel leader, political government chairman of Saber-Sa-Rapadan Province covering Lanao del Norte, also swore on the Koran to desist supporting the MILF, the country’s largest Muslim rebel group. (Photo contributed by the Armed Forces of the Philippines)

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