BALANGA, Bataan — A Muslim police general asked Sunday the national government to immediately dismantle the dreaded private armed groups (PAGs) of the Ampatuans in Maguindanao if it (government) really wants to have a lasting peace in that troubled province as he rallied his fellow Muslims in the country to unite in condemning the “bad individuals” who carried out the murders of their fellow brothers and sisters in Mindanao, saying they (murderers) should be immediately hanged before the public.

A former Bataan olice director, Gen. Sahiron Dulah Salim, the first ever Muslim general to become head of the Salaam Police, an all Muslim police organization, who had just retired from the service, issued the strongly worded statement against his fellow “Bad Muslims” who are suspects in the murder of 57 persons composed of 16 women, journalists, including Bong Reblando of the Manila Bulletin and other local politicians.

“The good Muslims are being put in bad light before the eyes of the world by the behavior of these bad Muslims who are murderers and killing innocent people just to satisfy their political agenda,” said Salim apparently referring to the Ampatuans whom the authorities blamed initially for the carnage of 57 people in the boundary of Ampatuan and Shariff Aguak towns in Maguindanao.

As this developed, at least nine members of the Ampatuan clan have been put on watch list by the Bureau of Immigration.

“In the Muslim world, women are respected and should not be harmed, by what they did was that they rubbed out the women, some of them were even raped, then were just buried,” said the visibly-irked Muslim general.

Buluan Vice Mayor Ismael Mangudadatu said in a television interview that his wife Gigi was brutally killed.