.... As
expected, some of the hawkish Filipino colonizers have now expressed anxiety
and fear that the contemplation of the establishment of Bangsamoro as a form of
government in Mindanao is contrary to the
preservation of Philippine colonialism in the war-torn region, signifying that
the historical identity connotative of freedom and heroism is now a phenomenal
idea whose time has come. They cannot just accept the reality that the
Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao can be resolved
by historical truth.
On
one hand, there are some within the colonized Bangsamoro people, who are deeply
conscious of the heroic struggle of their forebears against the Spanish,
American and Japanese colonizers. Truth to tell, they are always proud of the
Bangsamoro race and consider it entirely different from the Spanish-inspired
Filipino identity that is synonymous to the Christian Catholic children of
Spanish soldiers and the Christianized Indios of Luzon and Visayas, showcasing
in Philippine history as simply colonial slaves of Spain for more than three
centuries. Thus, considering now that Bangsamoro has surfaced and even accepted
as a solution by the Philippine government is indeed a welcome event.
Hence,
for the sake of 'just and lasting' peace in Filipino-occupied Mindanao ,
can the two extreme opinions be reconciled and give hope to both the Filipino
colonizers and the colonized Bangsamoro people that there are no victors or
winners in perpetual war?
Simply
put, how can peace agreements, signed and still to be signed, become a
solution, not just a deception, in achieving permanent and durable peace to
finally end wars in Mindanao and throughout
the Philippine archipelago among the Filipino and Bangsamoro peoples?
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