The Philippines' top rebel leader warned Saturday, October 27, a peace deal signed by his group could only end the armed conflict if the wider Filipino Muslim community supported it.... Authorities and MILF leaders must work to convince the large Muslim minority that the October 15 accord was a step forward for them, MILF chairman Murad Ebrahim said. "Please be reminded that the task ahead is bigger and more complex and complicated: translating this agreement into reality on the ground," he said in a statement read at a news conference on Mindanao island, home of the rebellion.... Ebrahim said Saturday the group must "make our people feel that the Bangsamoro government envisioned in the framework agreement is their government and no longer the... government of the aliens...." "Our main task this time is... to make them feel and realise that the framework agreement is not only an agreement between the MILF and the (government) but an all-inclusive agreement between the Bangsamoro people and the Philippine state...."
MILF chief Murad Ebrahim speaks in front of the media for the first time since the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro was signed. Photo taken by Karlos Manlupig
http://www.rappler.com/nation/14956-hard-work-ahead-after-peace-deal-milf
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