The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have been condemned today for the brutal attack on a Filipino town where the body of a severely mutilated boy was discovered.
The seven year old boy’s corpse was found by a riverbank, with the stomach hacked open. Town Mayor Bertrand Lumaque described how a group of MILF fighters attacked the town and used over 100 citizens as a human shield as they retreated from government soldiers.
The separatists murdered around 17 civilians as they fled from the town, including the young boy and his father.
“This morning we recovered a body of a seven-year-old. His father was brutally killed yesterday. What they did was inhuman, the boy’s stomach was open,” Lumaque told reporters.
President Arroyo has ordered the police and the military to defend “every inch of Philippine territory” and pursue the MILF groups who carried out the attacks.
