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Province of Lanao del Sur - Archived News

Wars of ancient history were about possessions, territory, power, control, family, betrayal, lover's quarrel, politics and sometimes religion.

But we are in the Modern era and supposedly more educated and enlightened .

Think about this. Don't just brush off these questions.

  • Why is RELIGION still involved in WARS? Isn't religion supposed to be about PEACE?
  • Ask yourself; What religion always campaign to have its religious laws be accepted as government laws, always involved in wars and consistently causing WARS, yet insists that it's a religion of peace?

WHY??

There are only two kinds of people who teach tolerance:
  1. The Bullies. They want you to tolerate them so they can continue to maliciously deprive you. Do not believe these bullies teaching tolerance, saying that it’s the path to prevent hatred and prejudice.
  2. The victims who are waiting for the right moment to retaliate. They can’t win yet, so they tolerate.
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Lanao del Sur

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Lanao del Sur and Marawi City farmers, fisherfolk receive agri-fishery aid

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has distributed agri-fishery equipment and inputs to 23 cooperatives and four local government units in Marawi City and Lanao del Sur to enhance government’s thrusts on food sufficiency and security.

Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala together with DAF-ARMM regional secretary Sangkula Tindick, assistant regional secretary Pendatun Disimban, BFAR –ARMM director Janice Musali graced the Farmers and Fishermen forum held May 8, 2012 at the provincial capitol in Lanao del Sur.

DAF-ARMM regional information division chief Dhigs Abdullah said, Alcala assisted by Lanao del Sur provincial governor Mamintal Adiong, jr., turned-over certificates to recipient farmers and fisherfolk cooperatives and local officials.

The farm equipment and inputs worth P620,000 include a total of 330 bags of certified rice seeds distributed at 20 bags each to Kamapian sa Ranao Center, Peace Center Incorporated and Unity and Coop Foundation of Lanao del Sur, Inc. all of Marawi City; Liliotun Farmers Assocation and Al-Isla People Economic Multipurpose Coop in Balindog, Tadman Farmers Assocation, Golden Multipurpose Coop, and United Bubong Multipurpose Coop all in the town of Bubong, Shanglan Islamic Development Mulitpurpose Coop, Ditsaan-Ramain, Ompongan o Tanbasok sa Ranao in Marantao, OISCA Farm Development Coop in Poona Bayabao and Al Fallah Multipurpose Coop in Taraka. The Shakba Federation of Irrigators Association of Bubong received 50 bags of certified rice seeds and organic fertilizer while Bubong Kamapian Farmers Association received 40 bags of organic fertilizer and one unit each of abaca stripping machine, wheat and rice thresher and shallow tube well were given to Mindanao Farmers Producer Cooperative of marogong, Tapukan Farmers Multipurpose Coop in Piagapo and Supangan Farmer Producer Coop in Taraka all in the province of Lanao del Sur.

Twelve (12) units motorized banca and eight (8) units fish aggregate devices worth P1.3 million were turned-over to fishermen cooperatives and local government units. Recipients of the motorized fishing banca with two units per cooperative include Sugodian Farmers and Fisherfolks Multipurpose Coop and Ranao Fishermen Islamic Development Multipurpose Coop both of Marawi City; Lakeside Fisher Multipurpose Coop of Balindog, Bairan Farmers and Fishermen Association of Bayang, Siapko Paglas Multipurpose Coop of Buadiposo and Raya Gadongan Fishermen and Farmers Marketing Coop of Ditsaan-Ramain while beneficiaries of the two units each fish aggregate device are the towns of Balabagan, Kapatagan, Malabang and Picong.

In his message, Secretary Alcala stressed the importance of cooperation and partnership in pushing for economic growth that would improve people’s quality of life assuring more livelihood assistance.

“I believe, with our partnership and with the cooperation of the local chief executives, we will be able to hasten the development of the lives of the residents of Lanao del Sur," Alcala said.

In response, Governor Adiong expressed belief that the assistance they received would boost the agriculture and fishery sectors in the province adding that low production due to insufficient support, facility and irrigation system has been the primary problem of the local farmer

As this developed, Secretary Alcala has ordered Administrator Antonio Nangel of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) to allocate additional funds for the rehabilitation of Kamanga dam which he earlier visited that could irrigate more than 3,000 hectares of farmlands in the towns of Ramain, Buadiposo and Bubong, and also instructed BFAR-ARMM director Musali to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a hatchery project near Lanao Lake.

Abdullah also said that Secretary Alcala commits to provide three (3) units of corn mill and twenty (20) heads of carabao with plow and harrow for corn-producing towns in the province and that the agency will likewise coordinate the Lanao del Sur provincial government for the possible inclusion of the area in the Greening Program with rubber, coffee and cacao among the priority commodities.

Peacekeeping forces sent to Lanao del Sur

The police fielded today peacekeeping contingents in Lanao del Sur’s adjoining Marugong and Malabang towns to prevent the escalation of hostilities between two Maranaw clans, which have left at least 12 people injured and 200 families displaced.

Senior Superintendent Romeo Magsalos, Lanao del Sur’s provincial police director, said their regional director, Chief Superintendent Mario Avenido, already dispatched emissaries to convince the Santikan family of Malabang, and the group of a certain Commander Pananandum in Marugong, to reposition their forces away from a hinterland barangay at the border of the two towns where they traded shots using assault rifles and shoulder-fire grenades.

Four of the 12 people wounded in the firefights were rushed to a hospital in Cotabato City.

Magsalos said several members of the Santikan family sustained shrapnel wounds when M-79 grenade projectiles landed in their positions as they engaged the group of Pananandum.

Local officials in Marugong and Malabang said Pananandum belong to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

The two groups have been locked in a rido (clan war) since 2008, according to Magsalos.

The hostilities erupted Monday when members of the Santikan family, armed with assault rifles, raided the hideout of Pananandum in the secluded Barangay Macaraundig in Marugong.

The SantIkans and the group of Pananandum are squabbling for control of lands in a barangay at the boundary of Marugong and Malabang.

“There have been many attempts to settle this rido but no positive results yet,” Magsalos said.

Magsalos said among those trying to convince the warring groups to agree to a peaceful settlement of the conflict were Army Col. Daniel Lucero of the anti-crime Task Force Ranao and Lanao del Sur Gov. Mamintal Adiong.

There are more than a hundred bloody clan wars in the more than 40 towns in Lanao del Sur and in Marawi City, the capital of the province.

Magsalos said the provincial police settled amicably more than 50 family feuds since he assumed nine months ago.

The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao police said in an emailed statement that efforts to peacefully address the conflict between the Santikans and Pananandum's group are being coordinated closely with the government and the MILF’s joint ceasefire committee.

Maranaws fear rising violence in Lanao Sur towns

Maranaw communities in the adjoining Lanao del Sur towns of Malabang and Balabagan are worried of an escalation of a violent rido (clan war) involving two families whose forces clashed anew Monday, displacing an undetermined number of innocent villagers.

Catholic Church radio station dxMS, an outfit of the Oblate Media Ministry, initially reported that several villagers have been wounded in the ensuing firefights involving the two rival clans.

Reporters have been trying, but failed to reach the Lanao del Sur police and the police director of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, Chief Superintendent Mario Avenido, for clarifications on the circumstances that led to the latest hostilities between the feuding Maranaw factions.

There have been more than a dozen encounters between the two groups in the past six months, some even disrupted the flow of traffic in portions of the Secretary Narciso Ramos Highway that traverse Malabang, a coastal town in the second district of Lanao del Sur.

Drivers and operators of public transportation units plying the Marawi-Cotabato route have confirmed the latest firefights involving the feuding Maranaw families.

CHR to uphold human rights in ARMM

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur- A Commission on Human Rights (CHR) official reiterated that the agency will uphold the rights of the indigenous and Moro peoples in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in the context of their culture and history of struggle for human development.

CHR Chairperson Etta Rosales, in a meeting here Thursday with regional officials and representatives of Moro civil society organizations, said that for the first time in 22 years of ARMM’s existence, the CHR is establishing a regional office here, on the persistent recommendation of ARMM Officer-In-Charge Governor Mujiv Hataman.

Rosales said human rights would be upheld in the ARMM, not merely by CHR standards, but in the context also of the rich experience of the Bangsamoro in their history of continuing struggle in many diverse fields of endeavor, including socio-economic, cultural, and political development.

"It is you, with respect to your rich culture and great history of struggle, that would uphold and defend human rights in the context of socio-economic, cultural and political development," Rosales pointed out.

Rosales said putting up the CHR-ARMM unit has been “a dream coming true” that she, Hataman, and President Benigno Simeon Aquino III had shared in common since they first met as lawmakers in the House of Representatives.

COMELEC to hold special village, SK polls in Lanao del Sur

MARAWI CITY, Lanao del Sur- The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) will hold a special Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in the three barangays in the province next week.

Lawyer Nasib Yasin, Provincial Election Supervisor, said the special elections will be conducted in Barangays Bialaan and Patong in the municipality of Bayang, and in Barangay Tulay in Madamba town.

He said the manual voting will start at 7:00 a.m. and end at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 12.

Positions to be voted for are barangay chairman, seven Kagawads, SK Chairman, and seven SK Kagawads.

Earlier, the COMELEC has issued Resolution No. 9405 setting forth the rules and regulations governing the conduct of May 12, 2012 special Barangay and SK polls in the three barangays, as well as in Barangay Lipat-on in Calatrava, Negros Occidental.

The said resolution provided that official candidates for the mentioned positions during the October 25, 2010 Barangay and SK elections are the candidates to be voted for on Saturday.

Also, all qualified and duly registered voters of the said barangays as of October 25, 2010 polls are entitled to vote in the special elections.

COMELEC declared a failure of elections in the three barangays last October 2010. According to Provincial Election Supervisor Yasin, violence during the conduct of elections was the main reason why it was declared a failure.