Misuari on Bangsamoro territory: “five tiny provinces”

From MindaNews (Oct 22): Misuari on Bangsamoro territory: “five tiny provinces”

From a makeshift stage at the Crocodile Park here, Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari, introduced by the emcee as “President of the Bangsamoro Republik,” rattled off his achievements in the Bangsamoro struggle in an introduction of himself written in third person and read by him for 16 minutes and in the next 30 minutes criticized the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro as a product of a “tripartite conspiracy” that reduced the Bangsamoro homeland to “five tiny provinces hardly the size of the Cotabato (Empire) of yore....” Crowd estimates varied from 3,000 to 10,000 but a Manila-based photographer used to covering rallies told MindaNews, “mga 1,500 to 2,000 lang.” A number of the men in the crowd wore mostly new camouflage pants and black shirts of different designs and initials. They gathered in front of the stage when the emcee ordered “formation na” at 2:15 p.m. Misuari, he said, was nearing the Park…. “The conspiracy in Malacanang Palace that afternoon of October 15 and the signing was like signing figuratively, their own death sentence,” Misuari said. MILF chair Al Haj Murad and the MIF he said, were “duped and ensnared” and had “fallen along the way, ending up joining traitors to their cause.” He said the MILF leaders had become “pure and simple puppets and pawns” of the  Philippines and Malasian “colonial powers....”

 

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