By
Edwin Fernandez
COTABATO
CITY -- The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) leadership condemned the Jolo
Church bombing and offered to pursue the culprits behind the carnage.
Mohagher
Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace panel, condemned what he described as a
"senseless violence" that resulted in the death of at least 20
people, he said in the MILF online news.
"This
criminal act has no place in our civilized society, especially that we are
about to reap the fruits of our struggle with the ratification of the
Bangsamoro Organic Law," he said.
During
the January 21 plebiscite, majority of the people in Muslim Mindanao voted in
favor of the law that will create a new Bangsamoro region with greater
autonomy, but Jolo and the entire province of Sulu voted against the proposed
measure.
"The
MILF is ready to support efforts in the apprehension of the perpetrators of the
senseless violence that occurred in a place of worship while people were
attending the morning mass," Iqbal said.
MILF
chairman Murad Ebrahim believed the bombing was not connected to the January 21
plebiscite. The whole of Mindanao remains under martial law after Congress
approved its extension this year. (PNA)
