79, which would hasten normalization under the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro with the MILF. ADVERTISEMENTThe process includes the dismantling of private armed groups, as well as implementing socioeconomic development efforts, transitional justice, and reconciliation programs. The normalization program states that MILF forces and their weapons will undergo a verification, validation and decommissioning process to be carried out by the Independent Decommissioning Body comprised of three foreign experts and four local representatives. The normalization program will include the MILF combatants and noncombatants, families of decomissioned combatants and other vulnerable sectors in the Bangsamoro region. It will cover six camps: Camp Bilal in Lanao del Norte and Lanao del Sur; Camp Omar ibn al-Khattab in Maguindanao; Camp Rajamuda in North Cotabato and Maguindanao; Camp Busrah Somiorang in Lanao del Sur; Camp Badre in Maguindanao; and Camp Abubakar as Siddique in Maguindanao.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer April 30, 2019 21:33 UTC