Last January 6 at around 8 o’clock in the morning, hundreds, if not thousands of Young Moros, from different groups and organizations of various schools and colleges in the City of Marawi and Lanao del Sur, gathered and Marshed in Quezon Avenue of the city for the MARSH PEACE RALLY urging the National Government to [...] Add comment January 9th, 2009
7 January 2008
MS CHARIE VILLA
Head of Newsgathering
ABS-CBN
Dear Ms Villa:
TV Patrol’s coverage of our protest action at the Israeli embassy today was a textbook example of crass sensationalism, of bad journalism.
According to your report, we supposedly threatened to bomb the Israeli embassy. (”Israeli embassy binantaang pasasabugin!”)
Not only does this put one speaker’s statements out of context, it totally mischaracterized the nature and intention of our actions. Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment January 9th, 2009
Manny Pacquiao Vs. Oscar De La Hoya
Fight starts at: ( undercards )
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Add comment December 7th, 2008
By: Mohd. Musib M. Buat
No. They are not ‘Filipinos’ but they are ‘Philippine Citizens’ by operation of law. And how did that happen? It’s a long story. But let me first narrate its historical antecedents before I will talk about the issue on ‘Citizenship’.
Historical Antecedents
The Moros were once free and independent people under the suzerainty of their sultanates with a definite territory or homeland as recognized under various treaties with foreign powers like Spain, Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands. The Moro sultanates, kingdoms and principalities at the time were known as karajaan or kadatuan (negeri in Malay), endowed with all the elements of a nation-state in the modern legal sense. They conducted foreign trade and commerce and diplomatic relations and entered into treaties of peace and amity, trade and commercial relations with their Asian neighbors as well as various European powers. Read the rest of this entry »
2 comments November 25th, 2008
By: Atty. Fatimah Bin Guerra
Thank you, Honorable Chief Justice and Associate Justices for showing us how justice works in this country. Thank you for issuing the TRO on the MOA-AD, for showing to the Filipino people how fast you can actually act upon cases filed by powerful politicians like Emmanuel Piñol and Celso Lobregat. Indeed, the speediness at which you have acted on this case was extraordinary and phenomenal. In 3 months time, you have struck down a document which took more than 10 years of painstaking negotiations to accomplish.
Thank you, too, for helping MILF base Commanders Ameril Ombra Kato and Bravo recruit more fighters and supporters. Your decision vindicated what they have always believed from the very beginning — that this government will never be sincere in talking peace with the Bangsamoro people. Now we are faced with the world’s longest running armed conflict that sees no resolution in sight. Thank you for condemning Mindanao as the next Afghanistan or Darfur in Asia. Read the rest of this entry »
2 comments November 11th, 2008
Sharing with you the interview with Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla who was incharge of the negotiations with GAM. This was copylift at http://www.c-r.org/our-work/accord/aceh/compromising.php – reconfiguring politics: the Indonesia – Aceh peace process.
I wonder if the Filipino Politicians and Leaders can also do this? Can they give peace a chance and solve the Mindanao root conflict and the Bangsamoro problem? If this Philippine Government don’t give MOA-AD a chance maybe we will just go back to our old call for re-Indpendence of the Bangsamoro people.
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Accord: How did you approach the problem of finding a negotiated settlement to the Aceh conflict?
Jusuf Kalla: I had been involved in Aceh since 2003. In early 2004 I visited Europe to try to meet GAM leader Malik Mahmud, but did not make direct contact. It was only after the December 2004 tsunami that I really had success. In January 2005, I set up a meeting with GAM with the help of a number of European ambassadors. Two weeks later, with the authority of the President, the first meeting with GAM took place. Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment November 10th, 2008
By: Engr. Don Mustapha Arbison Loong
The MOA-AD is “dead”. This became the headline in newspapers when the Supreme Court (SC) declared the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) as unconstitutional last October 14, 2008. The “death” of the MOA-AD had divided and polarized the country like never before in recent history.
The debate on the MOA awakened dormant religious prejudice and discrimination between Muslims and Christians. While the people who were Anti-MOA celebrated, some Moros felt that they had lost something. Some other Moro sectors felt like an “anti-dote” to the Moro problem was deliberately withheld from them. Disillusioned MILF rebels renewed hostilities with the government forces. Suddenly, the dreaded “ilagas” emerge and revived past Muslim-Christian community conflicts. There is so much blissful celebration and emotional retaliation by each side respectively, yet only a few really know the issues involved that was “killed” by the Supreme Court decision. Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment November 9th, 2008
CALLING ON THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) AND THE ORGANIZATION OF ISLAMIC CONFERENCE (OIC) TO INTERVENE AND MEDIATE TO END THE WAR IN MINDANAO AND INTERCEDE FOR THE JUST RESOLUTION OF THE BANGSAMORO STRUGGLE FOR THE RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION
When, at the dawn of the high-tech, ultra civilized 21st century, the Bangsamoro finds itself still bereft of its inherent rights and freedoms as a distinct sovereign nation, stolen as they were, under cover of “civilizing” democracy by successive colonizers; Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment October 8th, 2008
Implying that the US intervened in the crafting of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain is one thing, but accusing the Bangsamoro, particularly the Moro Islamic Liberation Front of collusion with the US and the Arroyo administration to serve the interests of both is another thing. It is unbelievable how a letter and a US report can be enough to discredit the Bangsamoro, totally disregarding our own dark history and current resistance against the United States not only as Moros of this country, but more so as Muslims of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
5 comments August 26th, 2008
By Datu Michael O. Mastura
Dear All,
We don’t have money to further enrich the national dailies with a whole page AD. So I do have to settle for alternative media prints “a la pobre”. But it has the benefit of global interconnectedness. Here’s my initial salvo to Frank’s ADS on MOA-AD. I will elaborate my commentary much later. For the sake of a broader debate, please help circulate this Open Letter on the MOA-AD.
Yours truly,
Datu Michael O. Mastura Read the rest of this entry »
This are compiled and verified text messages of encounters between the AFP Colonial wardogs and Mujahideens MILF Freedom Fighthers from the ground of Bangsamoro Homeland last August 21 and 22.
AUGUST 21, 2008
9:05 am – War is now getting bitter as invasion AFP Airforce OV-10 bomber started bombing Muslim villages in Damatulan, Midsayap Cotabato.
10:15 am – The invasion of AFP wardogs are continuing the massive and forcible eviction of Moro peoples in Brgy. Pananag and Daliao in Maasim and Brgy Datu Dani, Kiamba Saranggani in pursuance of ethnic cleansing campaign of GMA, AFP and Gov. Domingez of Saranggani. Read the rest of this entry »
5 comments August 23rd, 2008
ANC’s Tony Velasquez interviewed on August 18, Zainudin Malang, executive director of the Bangsamoro Center for Law and Policy, on the clashes that have erupted in parts of Mindanao and on the prospects for peace in the south. Malang has been a close observer of the peace process with Muslim separatists.
Q. What was your expectation after the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD) in Malaysia, had it pushed through?
A. I was expecting optimism on the ground, not what we are seeing here, not what we saw today. I was expecting the complete opposite after they had signed the MOA.
Q. Are these recent clashes in North Cotabato and Lanao del Norte an offshoot of the failure to sign the MOA-AD?
A. I cannot help but arrive at that conclusion. You know, there are only two ways to resolve the conflict: either through military means or through negotiations. And apparently, after the cancellation of the signing of the MOA, the product of a dozen years of long and hard bargaining on both sides, perhaps, there are armed groups who feel it will already be hard to resolve the conflict by way of negotiations. Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment August 23rd, 2008
Bangsamoro Youth Leaders Forum (BMYLF)
Press Statement
August 19, 2008
The Philippine government is once more trying to dupe the Bangsamoro people in its persistent desire to suppress the Moro’s inherent and legitimate right to govern themselves in accordance with the prescriptions of the Holy Qur’an. Still not contented with giving us bogus autonomy named Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which literally further divided not only the Bangsamoro homeland but the Bangsamoro people themselves, the imperial Manila is again granting deceptive concessions in the peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The government has also never showed it can implement agreements it entered into with the Bangsamoro people, like the Final Peace Agreement of 1996 with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Read the rest of this entry »
2 comments August 23rd, 2008
We are concerned citizens of peace, sons and daughters of the Bangsamoro, who are grieving over the past weeks’ horrific incidents in Southern Mindanao, and appeal against an all-out war in Mindanao.
We are gravely concerned with the negative repercussions brought by the TRO on the MOA on Ancestral Domain. We question the lop-sided one-track , anti-peace talks stance of many of our Senators – to name Mar Roxas, Chiz Esudero, Juan Ponce Enrile and others. They are statesmen who we feel are not helping the peace process and instead promote divisiveness in times of confusion, emotional trauma and uncertainty among our people. We ask these presidentiables with national ambitions, what is their agenda for the Bangsamoro, if any? Have they gone to the Muslim South and asked the Muslim constituency before opposing the MOA or were their positions a product of their biases and prejudices? Read the rest of this entry »
Add comment August 23rd, 2008
By Ibrahim Canana
Sometime in 2006, if memory serves me right, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita told a group of foreign diplomats and media men that the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) finds it difficult to deal with the ‘Moro rebels’ because they are splintered into so many factions. Ermita was alluding to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) as well as to the various factions of the latter.
The point that Ermita was trying to impress upon his audience was that the negotiation between the MILF and the GRP, which was going through a rough time at that particular moment, is quite impossible to conclude because the GRP does not know whom to deal with. That is why, he averred, the Moro Fronts have to unite first and put their acts together before the GRP can ink a final deal with the MILF. This is not, however the first time that Ermita raised this issue. Read the rest of this entry »
3 comments August 17th, 2008
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