Here’s Julie Alipala’s latest for the Inquirer on Marine Major General Benjamin Dolorfino and Defense Undersecretary Ramon Santos and their companions who were hostaged by MNLF rebels Friday.
Muslim rebels holding Brig. Gen. Benjamin Dolorfino and members of his peace mission have agreed to release their hostages Sunday.
Dolorfino said last night this was agreed on between Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza and the Moro group led by Ustadz Habier Malik.
“We can breathe easier now that we can go home,” Dolorfino told the Inquirer.
He said Malik agreed to release them after receiving assurances from the Organization of Islamic Conference that the planned meeting between the OIC, the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front to discuss the implementation of the RP-MNLF peace agreement would push through in March. The MNLF expects its detained leader, Nur Misuari, to head its delegation to the talks planned to be held in Saudi Arabia.
Earlier AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon denied that Dolorfino and Santos are being held hostage by the Moro National Liberation Front rebels. In his text message to reporters, Esperon said, “No. It’s a dialog. Dats why Dolorfino went there yesterday with Usec Santos of OPAPP.”
Santos, Dolorfino, and the other individuals went to the MNLF’s Camp Jabal Uhod in Bitanag village on Friday on a peace mission aimed at addressing the reported involvement of the MNLF in recent clashes with soldiers in Sulu.
They were about to go home around 2 p.m. when they were asked to stay longer by Ustadz Habier Malik, the local MNLF leader.
Jolo Councilor Temojen Tulawie, who went to Bitanag with members of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD), a Geneva-based monitoring group, said it appeared that Santos and his party were being held against their will. Click here for more of Alipala’s report.
Mixed signals from the military leadership have spawned speculations of what really is happening as well as criticism of Dolorfino’s performance. One message we got from a military officer said:
Lessons from hostage-guest, special detainee, half-cooked Marine Dolorfino:
1. Implement the 1996 RP-MLF Peace pact. Napagkasunduan na yan!
2.Work for the government, not the MNLF, if you are a government worker.
3.Don’t be your brother’s willing tool at the expense of your ‘half-brothers’ in the Marines.
Related stories:
There are those who say that the “hostaging” of Dolorfino and company could be a government-produced scenario to justify the release of Misuari (who is currently under house arrest).
Misuari to run in the May election. Click here.
We could only wish with prayers that the government men being held captive or guest at the MNLF camp will be released soon. Otherwise, it might end up as what happened to Generals Batalla and Baustista.
Read the whole story at the Inquirer.net: Blast from past: Killing of Gens. Batalla, Bautista
Ellen, are you back? I am almost teary-eyed, waiting for signs your’re back. Nevermind if it’s not macho to be worried. It’s the helplessness of our people’s situation. You just don’t know how you have impacted on people. It’s only the shits that I couldn’t speak for.
Yes, General Bautista’s and his men’s fate were indeed, tragic. I heard about that, Colonels talking: how some officers were in joyful mood, dropped what they were doing, happily anticipating group pictures for the next day’s
Newspaper. Even then our AFP were known for photo Ops. To some it was acjievement being splahed the front page of Daily Express, to many it could have costs their lives.
Remember Admiral Espaldon, Marcos’ knight against the Moslems. He was a convert too, or born one I heard. But he survived to tell the tale in a top secret briefing in CGSC.
The G.I.’s are grim, shaking their heads or laughing now. Why our military be so stupid as to put themselves helpless in the enemies’ lair. Ours hailed by Chruchill as the best fighting men in the world, are no longer the fighting soldiers of Bataan, but the heavy politicized nincompoops swayed by commander-in-cheat crazy about photo ops and a life of greed in power. The shame and humiliation of these officers touches deep into their souls, they can no longer look their children in the eye.
Not in the name of patriotism but in the glory of servile Loyalty to a political boss of bosses. WWNL, sorry I just typed the words, the vocabulary can be pretentious and stilted but that’s how I felt.
Daily Tribune reports:
Malik refuted speculations that they were demanding the release of former MNLF chairman and ARMM Gov. Nur Misuari who was earlier detained at Fort Sto. Domingo in Santa Rosa , Laguna while facing charges of rebellion, but is now said to be under house medical arrest.
My goodness he’s under house medical arrest whilst our brave AFP officer’s such as Danny Lim are treated so badly even though there is no evidence to support Haemorrhoid Assperone’s allegations. It shows that without military support from the american’s in Jolo the AFP cannot on their own protect the people any more. What can we expect from so called AFP leaders like Haemorrhoid Assperone. He will go down in history as being a another big mistake of this administration for not promoting an experienced, trustworthy and respected Chief-of-Staff. The AFP are out of their depth and drowning. But who will be left to correct this mess made by this evil wonderwoman and the AFP Leadership, our young up and coming generation, thats who! What a legacy to leave them! Glo Enough is Enough you should be ashamed.
“I don’t want to disclose details of what we have discussed during a very healthy and open dialogue with them… but may I say with confidence that perhaps by tomorrow, if there are no new developments to prohibit or prevent the favorable developments over the day, then possibly we can resolve this tomorrow morning,”
Indeed, people now expect these words, from a stoned-face liar, political criminal seasoned to mouth words of deceits. Itong anak ng ascal talks with rabies saliva driping almost glouting while some soldiers with families who depends on their little salaries are put in harms way. And when God permits, the very next day, he can shout to the whole world a heroism achieved only by fools. See? We are alive, we are heroes. We will have medals for our stupidity.
jay:
No problem to me, whilst your typing your comments I’m also not complimentary to the AFP Leadership (Leadership can’t be the correct term for this idiot Haemorrhoid Assperone, I just need to emphasis that). What a mess for the people residing in Mindanao.
Dolorfino is a Muslim convert. Military sources said he has two Muslim wives.
And these are my own vocabulary: History is cruel to those who read but don’t understand the lessons of history. It repeats itself on them and their children for the bad side of history never sleeps. It pounces and debilitate, mock and maimed, laughs and smirks,
Kicks and spits the butt of shits. and shoved its dirty finger up the asses of clowns who served traitors to their country.
Jay, thank you. I came back last night. I have a lot of catching up to do.
tama ms. ellen, balik-islam nga itong si dolorfino. ang hindi natin alam ay baka kung anong moro-moro na naman itong niluluto ni gloria at mga kampon niya. may kaugnayan kaya ito sa magiging resulta ng eleksyon sa mindanao? hindi maalis ang pagdududa kasi wala nang kapani-paniwala sa mga pinagsasabi at pinaggagawa ng pekeng administrasyon ni gloria.
Shooting the messengers, that’s what happening. Now, altogether now, one side will say they are not hostages but guests, the mighty Esperon says there’s no problem, Malcanang says it is on top of the Problem, but the simple thing that developing is the mnlf will get back Nur Misuari, by a very simple game of bluffing. And we are wondering why until now, for all the so-called efforts of both parties and other third parties, the issues of the MNLF and the rest of the Muslim Filipinos have not been resolve, because the reality is nobody involve wants it resolves. There must be some money in it for the “warlords” as usual..
Here’s another message we got from military sources:
ms ellen, natuliro yata ako, hindi ko lang ma gets. ang may hawak kila dolorfino ay mnlf and yet ipinagyayabang pa nito na may 2 battalions of mnlf na pwedeng magrescue sa kanila. bakit hindi marines? anong ginagawa ng mga atapang-a-tao?
We really are no brothers to our brother Muslims. We don’t respect them, we don’t understand them, we continue to think of them as fools like us.
If we are converts, or marry into them we fool ourselves to think we are one of them. And we
who are their enemies think foolishly and fatally that we can fool them, believing our bishops who got it wrong from Jesus Christ, who say love your enemy and be damned by your stupidity.
Was it an American who said: Only a dead Moro is a good Moro. Will it be a Maranao, or a Tausog, or Samal, or a Badjao who will say a live Christian when useful to us is a good Christian. Fools are useless when they are dead.
Isabel, many of the MNLF members have been integrated into the AFP as part of the 1996 Peace Pact. I suppose that’s what Dolorfino means. I’ll ask my source.
I hope Black Knight or Spy can help us on this .
thanks, ms ellen. sana nga may makapagbigay linaw sa atin tungkol sa tutuong istorya ng balitang ito. ang masasabi ko lang, napakatanga naman ng dolorfino na ito, makikipag-usap sa kampo pa ng kalaban. nandamay pa ng iba, sana siya na lang.
I had little conversation with a disgusted Pinoy friend of mine of things here in the Philippines. Like the many others, he couldn’t wait the day he could go abroad, anywhere just away from the Philippines, he said. Things here in the Philippines are nothing normal that can be expected, yet it has all the differences that one can find. Somehow, I kinda lost of what he’s trying to relate to me, and I thought I understood his hate and disgusment of what the Philippines has became. In particular, I directed my confusion to his statement that Philippines has all the differences. He told me with the grin on his face, you haven’t heard? His offer of explanation, “Dito sa Pilipinas narito iyong lahat ng deperensya.” I thought it’s funny, but as I experienced the everyday life, lots of truth of what he told me, deperensya” in which I’ll never forget.
And, the biggest “deperensya” is illegitimate Gloria Arroyo, he added, with seriouness on his face this time.
Toney, it’s nice to see you blogging again. Matagal kang nawala.
You are welcome ellen. Seems you have been away a short time but long enough for your blog site to be made the dumpsite of amoebaiasis-smelling diarrhea of denizens from Hades. These guys are
fast, like rats having a fiesta when you turned off the lights. Or cockroaches even evolution can not touch and change.
“Was it an American who said: Only a dead Moro is a good Moro”
Who ever said that words maybe the same fellow who said: Only a dead Indian (american) is a good Indian”.
And that fellow was Dead Wrong!!! History exposed that it was not the Indian that was Bad. And history will prove that it will not be the Moro that is bad. But what made them bad. First, they blamed scalping to the Indians, when they were just returning the favour. They blame the Moros for violence, but they were the victims of violence as well. They blame them for claiming the land for nothing, but whose land were those in the first place? And who owned the vast land in the south nowadays? Until the day that these grievances are addressed with sincerity, then there will be no trust on either sides. There will be no dancing with the wolves, but betrayals and more violence.
Vic
while Malacanang then was glouting under
Erap, you don’t know how it felt to be bombed
day and night, how hungry children cowered in fear, how bad it is to run in the dark of the night. How those explosions shook your bones
and pound your skulls. This is what we have done and are still doing to our brothers and their innocent children in Mindanao. I have crossed the heart of Mindanao from Davao to Cagayan de Oro and saw our people there cooking rice in the road side because their bus coonked out and the mechanic and his spare parts will arrive the next day. There the soldiers have a job to do in coroner’s lab and are numbed to the smell of death and the cries of babies.
I already reached a point when I can’t force myself to believe anything that this fake government is telling the public.
My guess is that this kidnap episode is again a moro-moro. I wish Assperon and Ebdane were the ones kidnapped at tinuluyan na sana!
It was awesome traversing this beautiful Mindanao island of ours. It is horrible that it is now no different from the human deserts carved and sculptured by cruelty and greed of our leaders. To be a soldier, a militant, a rebel, a priest is not enough to know and feel for the people of Mindanao. One needs to be a child, a mother, and a widow of many generations now, to know and shout to the wilderness that Mindanao is truly the Philippines, beautiful and rich but mercilessly raped and plundered. In hope and in future, it is vast Africa in Asia.
The GRP Panel of MajGen Dolorfino made a mistake of going inside the camp of the MNLF to talk with MNLF leader Habier Malik for a “flimsy & simple” reason. I got an information that Malik could not be trusted. He supports the ASG in Sulo. Dolorfino and GRP members violated this simple instruction..”kung sino ang may kailangan ay siya ang lalapit”
MajGen Dolorfino should resign his post as the Chief Negotiator of the GRP to the different Muslim concerns in Mindanao. He has a more demanding position/job as the Commander of the National Capital Region Command (NCRCOM) whose headquarters is located in Camp Aguinaldo. He should be focused on the CPP/NPA infiltration in the suburbs of Metro Manila and the unabated presence of wanted and suspected “terrorists” in the South in the sprouting Muslim villages in Metro Manila. His additional work in Mindanao is a concern of politicians. Let Dureza do his job!
The Dolorfino situation in Sulo is a concern of the Phil Marine Brigade under Gen Juancho Sabban who has 2-3 battalions in that side of Sulo. I think there are no MNLF integrees with the Phil Marines. But I am sure they have friends/contacts with the MNLF and muslims in the area. As of yesterday, I am sure also that this brigade had already surrounded the MNLF camp where Gen Dolorfino is located.
Ellen, I hate these Christian military people who converts to Muslim for the benefit of having two or more wives! In other Muslim countries, military officers are not promoted to the star rank/General if they are married to two or more wives. These kind of officers are relegated to lower positions and retire from the service as Colonels or lower! I could not imagine how they support two or more families with the salary they are receiving from the government. Your guess is as good as mine.
Find time to watch the movie “Babel” this weekend. I just watched the movie “Apocalypto” (by Mel Gibson) last night. I recommend this movie, too!
Ellen, the GRP Team of MajGen Dolorfino is already on their way to Jolo. They were released by the MNLF group early this morning.
I smell something foul in this scene. Why would a moslem convert, known to favor the MLNF, be a hostage? Dolorfino is probably held with consent to put pressure on the leadership to release someone powerful from an incarceration. It can be a number of other things too related to the upcoming elections. But the fact that Dolorfino is “half a marine”( there is no such thing if you come to think about it but in the Philippines where most of the current generals have already compromised their integrity, this half marine may have been coined right!), this hostage situation may just be one of the moro-moro act that the tiyanak is cooking up!
Mindanao in a very rich region and a lot of very rich people have invested in agri business. The peace and order in this part of the Philippines should be a priority of the government. This is Tiyanak’s forte, take care of the rich and to hell with the poor!
vic Says: February 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
“Was it an American who said: Only a dead Moro is a good Moro” Vic you got to be right. Just live on Mindanao for a short while and the abuses to the Muslim by the military are there to see. I won’t go into vivid descriptions because I’m so sure you know without spelling it out. What we forget is that these Muslim are Filipino also, they have rights the same rights as us.
Ask most modern Germans their opinion of the Jew and they acknowledge that they were hoodwicked by propaganda from their government of the day. The same whether its the American Indian, Jews or Moro we will live to regret being hoodwincked.
Dolorfino must be refering to the MNLF integrees. The two battalions he was saying are stationed and ‘hidden’ inside camp aguinaldo under NCRCOM. Some are stationed at fort boni as a contingency force. Actually, these integrees are esperon’s chosen bunch for ‘anti coup’ . Esperon doesn’t trust ‘regular’ soldiers anymore.
When these generals themselves are saying they are not hostaged, so be it. Bakit ba iniiba pa ng mga burot ang pag-uusap ng mga Moslems na amicable naman yata? Trying to get pogi points? From whom? The now unpopular mad man at the White House? Puede ba tigilan na ni Glue at mga tuta niya ang mga kalokohan nila.
Traydor pa ang ungas at in a few more months pabobomba daw sa mga kano ang mga Moro sa Jolo! I know a lot of Moslems who only want peace and want their lands back. Kawawa iyong mga anak nilang naka-child slavery sa Baguio at Manila!!!
Nakatiwangwang ang mga lupa nila because of the “insurgency” mismo ng mga landgrabbers with military guards! Please tigilan na ang mga plastikan!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Thanks Black Night and Spy.
Ellen hi welcome back…
Re: “many of the MNLF members have been integrated into the AFP as part of the 1996 Peace Pact. I suppose that’s what Dolorfino means”.
I have a personal experience where maybe it shows that we were hoodwinked into this in 1996.
By chance a businessman was looking for me to do business with him on construction. He had a whole PNP unit guarding him which surprised me, it was ‘explained’ to me that he had a money changing business; it also unfolded that he was a Muslim. I soon saw for myself that at prayer time 50% of the PNP disappeared to a warehouse for prayer.
Now, the PNP commander placed this unit there to guard the businessman. We can only assume that a payment was made by this businessman. Immediately I blamed it on being a muslim but after I gave it deeper thought it became obvious to me that the commander being a christian was in fact calling the shots. Muslim or christian the cause was greed! not religion.
Needless to say I politely gave my excuses and left it well alone.
Update from ABS-CBN:
Dolorfino and companions to leave MNLF camp Sunday afternoon
Marine Brigadier-General Benjamin Dolorfino has confirmed that he and other government peace negotiators who went to a Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) camp in Sulu will leave on Sunday afternoon.
“We will be allowed to leave after lunch. Actually, we’re just waiting for an amicable settlement to be made for a misencounter recently in Daondong island,” Dolorfino told ANC’s Dateline Phils.
Dolorfino, along with Undersecretary Ramon Santos of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process, 11 other military personnel and eight civilians, went to the MNLF camp in the jungle of Bitan-ag in Panamao on Friday to conduct a peace seminar with MNLF leaders and members.
After the seminar, Dolorfino and some of his companions were requested to stay a while longer discuss an upcoming summit between the MNLF, the Philippine government and the Organization of Islamic Conference in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia this year.
Earlier reports said the delegation was seized after MNLF leaders were angered by a government proposal to postpone the summit.
Presidential adviser on the peace process Jesus Dureza, however, has assured the MNLF that the gathering will push through.
Mahirap talaga ang problema sa mga moro sa mindanao lalo pa at nakikisawsaw ang mga moro-moro sa malacanang.
True story pala ang Ali Baba and the forty thieves. he he
apoy, sino ba naman ang matutuwa kung ang pakikipag-usap ay parang kabag sa tiyan na pasumpong sumpong? kulang kasi ng sinseridad ang pamahalaan sa layuning tapusin o solusyunan ang gulo sa mindanao na kung mabibigyan ng realidad ay siyang mag-aahon sa buong bansa sapagkat napakayaman nito sa natural resources. wala kasing nasa utak ang mga namumuno, lokal man o nasyonal kundi puro pera, kwarta, atik at datung! in short, ‘yun na!
ms ellen, welcome back!
Thanks M.
Spy,
You said that Assperson “..doesn’t trust ‘regular’ soldiers anymore.”
Ang bubulok ng mga Generals ni Gloria ! I can only imagine how difficult-an understatement, of course-it must be for a soldier to be lead by Generals that are so rotten.
I’m just curious, aren’t the junior officers sick & tired ?
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Black Knight,
You said that you “..watched the movie “Apocalypto” (by Mel Gibson)..” I thought it was a good movie, too ! Like you, I’d recommend it.
chabelli, kanino ba kukuha ng gimik ang mga general repair na ‘yan kundi doon sa palpak na over hauler ng malakanyang. kita mo nga’t ayaw pang amining hinostage sila ng MNLF dahil sa kanilang animo kabag ng tiyan na pakikipag-peace talk (daw). kapag kasiraan ng bulok at wala ng masisirang administrasyon ng temporary acting permanent president, todo takip at kung ano anong alegasyon pa, buking naman! dapat nga kapunin na itong si dolorfino para hindi na dumami ang lahi niyang tulisan!
I just saw “Babel” tonight. The multi-layering of incidents, culture, values makes for an excellent and memorable story.
For me, the test of great movie is after you have seen it, you think more of it and the more does the story unfold.
It’s a searing movie but there are so many inspiring characters. The character played by Brad Pitt is admirable. He did not press charges against his children’s nanny. But the one that won my heart was the character of Brad Pitt’s tourist guide when he refused the money that Brad offered to pay. You can see their economic poverty, yet he was not poor in heart and spirit. He had Dignity.
Inspiring.
So the moro-moro conitnues….from the impeachment, to the fact-finding kuno in Munich and now the Dolorfino holiday. Would the next elections be the next moro-moro?
Welcome back Ellen, we missed you.
The MNLF integrees numbered about 5,000. The government policy of violating accords and sweeps even while peace talks are ongoing is the reason why peace cannot be achieved. Distrust then leads to more encounters. And of course, the military wouldn’t want the different insurgencies to stop, mawawala ang mga kickbacks nila. Plus of course, no more aid from the good old US of A.
To the MNLF, please lang, paki-kidnap nyo si gloria, si big mike, wonder boy mike, gonzales, puno, isama na rin si el jugador chavit, joe de venecia at ang tamihim kunong si FVR, tapos pugutan nyo na sila ng ulo. Kapag nagawa ito ng MNLF, sasapin na ako sa kanila.
correction: i mean “tahimik” not tamihim. Sorry!
another correction: “sasapi” hindi sasapin.
Ano ba ito, napasok na yata ako ng virus ni bansot!
hahahah, napasok ka na rin ng virus ni bansot ha, goldenlion?!
Ang lakas makahawa, ano? Kay dapat lang na pugutan lahat ng ulo iyang mga pangalang nabanggit mo!
Simple lang naman ang problema sa mindanao.Dapat lumayas na ang mga sundalo roon.Pag wala na ang sundalo,wala nang kalaban ang mga muslim.Tingnan niyo sila-sila rin kapwa muslim ang magpapatayan.Ang patunay: Hamas vs Fatah,Sunni vs Shiite..MILF vs MNLF? Abangan!!
Apoy
are you reading the fighting going on in Gaza?
sila, sila nagpapatayan, mysterious ways ba ng
Diyos yan?
jay,
mysterious pa ba iyon? Unless we fully understand the essence of the human race,our existence is only within the confines of the rat race.Whoever wins the rat race is still a rat. Di ba?
Ellen: I…But the one that won my heart was the character of Brad Pitt’s tourist guide when he refused the money that Brad offered to pay. You can see their economic poverty, yet he was not poor in heart and spirit. He had Dignity.
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Not in the Philippines, Ellen. I actually called them “glorified pimps,” the tourist guides they have in the Philippines who are more interested in selling prostitutes to the tourists, even the serious ones.
Out there in the world, especially those in the remote places, are people who are still untouched by the graft and corruption of the world, especially if they have not seen any movies made in Hollywood! They remind me of the Filipinos I knew as a child growing up in war-ravaged Philippines.
It’s just too bad that the Philippines has become what it is today because those with real potentials to make it a great nation have long been gone and being useful elsewhere!!!
Sayang!
I was going to add, iyan ang nawala sa maraming pilipino—honor and dignity—and for the love of money!!! Thanks for pointing that out Ellen!
May suspicion ako na isang malaking Moro-moro ang nangyari between Dolorfino and the MNLF. I was born, raised and studied with the Muslims. A lot of my relatives are married with the Muslims. One of my best friends is a Muslim. The last time (2004)I was there, she was kidding me, if ever my husband is kidnapped just to notify her! In short, we had no problem at all with them. They’re just like any other Christian. Now, if somebody starts to make b—-s—t out of them, then they can be the worst enemy you can ever imagine!
Sinabi mo pa, Elvie. One of our co-advocators who help us succeed is a Moslem from Jolo. His friends actually have been useful to our advocacies, and I wonder really why the Moslems are not encouraged to do more because they can contribute a lot to making the Philippines a real great nation.
I knew Nur Misuari as a matter of fact. He was a scholar at the Asian Studies Center when I was a student there, myself. Sayang ang talino ng taong iyan not being made to good use!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
I’ve met a few military officers of the Muslim religion when I used to go to the South. One in particular is with the Air Force. One of the most decent officers I’ve met.
As Elvira said, they are like you and me with one difference: they never forget when someone does them wrong.
Just crossed my mind. Could it be that the Burot is negotiating with Nur Misuari to help her get Moslem votes, and why they have staged this rather fraudulent hostage taking?
I don’t know PV, but my 6th sense tells me that this is another hoax!
katarantaduhan ang sinasabi ng mga lukuluko na “a good muslim is a dead muslim”. nabanggit ko na ito noon pa sa mga naunang talakayan. at ako ang makapagpapatunay na mas tao silang kaharap at kasama kung ikukumpara sa mga sinungaling at magnanakaw na nagpapanggap na tagapagtanggol ng kapakanan nilang mga kapatid nating muslim. partikular itong mga tao-sug ng sulu. sila ang tribu ng mga muslim na madaling pakibagayan at pakisamahan. wala silang tanging hangad kundi ang igalang ang kanilang kaugalian at pakikipagkapuwa tao. hindi sila marunong magkunwari at tapat sa kanilang salita. kung ayaw sa isang tao, hindi sila ‘yung makikipagplastikan.
ilang ulit nang ipinakita at pinatunayan ng mga MNLF kung ano ang tunay nilang paraan sa pakikipaglaban. halimbawang maiuugnay dito ang nangyari kina bgen teodulfo bautista at mga kasama noong october 1976 sa danag, patikul, sulu kung saan pinapaniwala sila ng pangkat nina usman sali na makikipag-usap nang maayos, subalit walang awang minasaker. isang kabo lamang ang nakaligtas sa naturang insidente nang magtago siya sa ilalim ng mga patay na kasamahan at nagkunwaring patay na rin, si corporal oliver calsada ng 1st signal battalion.
ikalawang patunay ang nangyari sa kayawan, pata island, sulu noong february 1981 kung saan ang mahigit isang kumpanya ng 31st infantry battalion, sa pamumuno ng kanilang battalion commander, ltcol jacinto sardual ay parang mga manok na dinapuan ng peste nang ibaba ang kanilang mga sandata upang diumano’y mag-usap tungkol sa pagsuko ng mga miyembro ng MNLF. dalawang draftee ang nakaligtas nang magkunwaring mga patay na sa mga tinamong sugat.
personal kong naranasan ang mga patunay ng katapatan nilang makisama at kumilala sa kaibigan noong naka-assign ako sa matatal, maimbung sulu bilang detachment commander kung saan ilang pagkakataon na hina-harass at tinatambangan ang mga nasa paligid naming detachment samantalang hindi nila kami ginagalaw sa kabila na alam nilang mahigit sampu lamang ang aming bilang.
naranasan ko rin ang minsang maglakad ng kulang dalawampung kilometro dahil walang pampasaherong masakyan mula tagbak, indanan patungong maimbung kung saan nadaanan ko ang mga sandatahang MNLF sa mga ilang na lugar at hindi nila ako ginalaw kahit kilala nila akong isang sundalong nakatalaga sa matatal detachment. ligtas nila akong pinalampas at kumakaway pa ang bawat isa at nagsasabi ng “su’ung na kaw, bagay” (mabilis ang pagbigkas ng “bagay” o kaibigan) na “tumuloy ka lamang, kaibigan” ang ibig sabihin.
ganito rin ang pangyayari noong july 1985 habang nasa kasagsagan ang aming operations upang iligtas ang tatlong dayuhang consultant ng NIA na dinukot ng mga MNLF sa indanan, sulu. nagsamasama ang halos buong puwersa ng mga rebelde buhat sa iba’t ibang panig ng sulu upang i-pin down ang aming grupo sa may paanan ng mt tumatangis, subalit nang malaman ng mas nakararaming pangkat nina kumander ronnie na kami ang naka-engkwentro ng kanilang kasamahan, kusa silang lumihis ng landas at kung nangyaring tumulong silang makiharap laban sa amin, siguradong para kaming mga daga na hindi malaman kung saan susuling sa dami ng aming magiging kalaban.
sa kasong ito nina mgen dolorfino, nakakatawang isipin na ginawa niyang tanga ang lahat upang papaniwalain na sila ay hinostage nina ustadz malik samantalang maliwanag na pinigil lamang sila upang pag-usapan ang mga bagay na hindi mabigyang kahalagahan ng pamahalaan. kung tunay silang pinilit, bakit hindi sila nagmatigas gayung meron namang matataas na kalibre ng armas ang kanilang security detail sakaling gamitan sila ng dahas? out numbered sila? naku naman, paano siya naging heneral kung hindi siya marunong mag-plano kung paano lansihin ang kalaban? aminin ng umakyat sa lalamunan ang kanyang bayag at mas unang inisip ang mga naghihintay pang “sarap” sa kanyang pagiging heneral.
dahil sa kanyang kasinungalingan hindi karapatdapat si dolorfino na magtaglay ng estrelya sa kanyang mga balikat at lalong hindi siya nararapat itaas ng katungkulan.
an unbecoming of a flag officer in a lowest level of cowardice.