What was touted as the largest bastion of the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan, birthplace of its leader who was killed during their 2017 siege of Marawi City, is now a 'peace zone,' cleared from the presence of terrorists fomenting hatred for non-Muslims.
Police, military officials and local executives released white doves and balloons during June 4, 2024 symbolic event in Lantawan town in Basilan , now free from Abu Sayyaf terrorists.COTABATO CITY — What was touted as the largest bastion of the Abu Sayyaf in Basilan , birthplace of its leader who was killed during their 2017 siege of Marawi City, is now a "peace zone," cleared from the presence of terrorists fomenting hatred for non-Muslims.
“Actually that liberation effort began about five years ago with local government units, the military and the police’s having cleared the mountain ranges in the Sampinit Complex in the center of Basilan from Abu Sayyaf terrorists where a highway is being constructed now to connect that area to different towns in the province and to its two cities, Lamitan and Isabela,” Galido said.
Lantawan, birthplace of the Tausug Isnilon Hapilon, the last leader of the Abu Sayyaf who was killed by soldiers during their siege, along with the Maute terror group, of Marawi City from May 23 to Aug. 16, 2017. Abu Sayyaf’s founder, the radical cleric Abdurajack Janjanali, grew up in Barangay Tabuk in Isabela City in Basilan, where he studied elementary and high school before he became an overseas worker in the Middle East and studied Islamic theology in Syria. He subsequently returned to the province and established the Abu Sayyaf that was about to expand in different towns in Sulu, now also a peaceful province.
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