ARMM Governors Throw Support Behind Aquino Peace Draft with MILF

From the Mindanao Examiner (Oct 10): ARMM Governors Throw Support Behind Aquino Peace Draft with MILF

Saying that they had had enough of the tragedies of war, the five governors of the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have declared their all-out support behind President Aquino’s initiatives to forge peace with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). In a media statement released by the Office of the Presidential Peace Adviser, it said the ARMM governors said they were optimistic that the Framework Agreement forged by government with the MILF would provide the “ road map for lasting peace in Mindanao.” They stressed that government should never again adopt the “all-out war” policy because “it will never be a solution” to the decades-old Mindanao armed conflict. “We, the ARMM provincial governors, support this Framework Agreement reached between the Aquino government with the MILF because it will peacefully resolve the armed conflict in Mindanao through democratic process and constitutional ways. It is not like the ‘all-out-war’ policy which solves nothing and merely prolongs conflict and causes deaths,” said Sulu Gov. Sakur Tan. “We should learn lessons from the past....”

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