MILF

ISULAN, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines — The family of the late sheikh Salamat Hashim, founding chair of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), slammed on ...

The stint of the BTA members was to end on June 30. The BTA is an 80-member body tasked to govern the transition period for the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) government until 2025. Hashim said the family would not allow the use of their father’s name to disrupt the peace and progress that the BARMM had been reaping lately, “not to mention the organization that he and countless others gave their lives to protect and to establish,” he added, referring to the MILF. “We are bona fide and legitimate members and officials of the MILF and are trusted persons of the late chair Salamat Hashim. We maintain that we are not a breakaway group or [any of] the sort,” Delna said in the statement. Section 2 of the law states that “during the extension of the transition period, the BTA shall continue as the interim government in the BARMM, provided, however, that the president may appoint the 80 new interim members of the BTA who shall serve up to June 30, 2025, or until their successors shall have been elected and qualified.” “Our father’s work and legacy have always been for the good of the Bangsamoro and Muslim Ummah (community). It is a great disservice to his legacy and an insult to his family to use his name to sow division, which could lead us away from the promise of peace,” he said in a statement.