Are the Republic and the MILF still at war?

WE all think and hope the answer is no. But many of us are now asking the question with increasing urgency, worried that the nation must brace itself for new hostilities, and that this may be influenced by the Islamic State tide in the Middle East.

With a notable sense of timing, on the second day of the Senate inquiry into the Mamasapano incident/massacre, the chairman of the peace panel of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), Mohagher Iqbal, jolted the hearing with a letter that squarely showed where MILF stands with respect to Mamasapano.