Thursday, October 11, 2012

Road Map to a Bangsamoro in the Philippines

Posted to The Asia Foundation "In Asia" Webpage (Oct 10): Road Map to a Bangsamoro in the Philippines

As one of those in the International Contact Group – a group of countries and international NGOs, including The Asia Foundation, tasked with supporting peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) – I watched the speech live from the negotiation session in Kuala Lumpur. It was a very emotional time for all: we had finally reached “the end of the beginning” to establish a new governing entity to replace the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). After years of negotiations, decades of conflict, countless deaths and untold damage, a milestone had been reached....

http://asiafoundation.org/in-asia/2012/10/10/road-map-to-a-bangsamoro-in-the-philippines/

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