MILF: 1st Agency for Youth Affairs prov’l assembly held in Sultan Kudarat province

From the MILF Website (Jan 18): 1st Agency for Youth Affairs prov’l assembly held in Sultan Kudarat province

Around 600 Bangsamoro youths attended the First Agency for Youths (AYA) provincial Assembly in Biwang Provincial Committee held in Sitio Da’wah, Malisbong, Palimbang, Sultan Kudarat recently. Also gracing the occasion were officials of the MILF political and military organs, asatidz (pl. of ustadz) women, professionals, politicians, traditional leaders, and members of the Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA).

The newly designated Provincial Chairman of Agency for Youth Affairs (AYA) in Biwang Province Mr. Teng Usman expressed his warmest greetings and thanks to all his colleagues and to the Political Committee Officials headed by Chairman Kingboy Bayang of Biwang Province and Bangsamoro Development Agency (BDA) for their generosity and its untiring supports for the realization of this historic and meaningful affair especially to youths. He underscored the roles of the youths in support of the struggle of the Bangsamoro to right to self-determination.

Former Palembang Labualas Mamansual Abdul Al Haj (also known as Comdr. Samroad), one of the keynote speakers, shared his story with the gathered youths on how he was personally involved in the movement as a young man and as cadre officer of the MNLF. He recalled that he and Maestro Montano Pilangking, an MILF leader in later years but now dead, strived to organize and nurture the Biyang Youth Association (BYA) which later became the core of the MNLF leadership in the area.

Samrod also recalled the split with the MNLF the late Salamat Hashim formed what is now the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), even as he strongly urged everybody especially the youths to rally behind the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro signed by the MILF and the government last October 15, 2012.

For his part, Chairman of Biwang Province, Kingboy Bayang, expressed thanks to the youth organizers for the success of their assembly and bringing to fore the challenges that the youths have to face after the elder generations of leaders are gone. “Today you have noticed the presence of more MILF political leaders, BIAF, traditional leaders and other entities are now behind you as a manifestation of their pleasure and supports to this youths’ assembly,” he said in his opening lines. He appealed to the parents, political and traditional leaders and others to unite and bind themselves in supporting the youth to become the future leaders in our struggle to continue what we have done.

Dr. Amor Pendaliday, the National Chairman of the Agency for Youths Affairs (AYA) in his message, he pronounced that Palimbang is a “Cradle of the Bangsamoro Freedom”, recalling that when Prof. Nur Misuari came back to Mindanao his first itinerary was Palembang where he established several training camps there. Dr. Amor encouraged the youths to prepare in all aspects before we will become successors of our leaders for the liberation of our people and our territory. Amor also reminded the youths of the statement of the later Chairman Salamat Hashim when he uttered these words: “If I will die, I have already planted the seeds of Jihad in the hearts and minds of the Bangsamoro People as well as to the youths. The present and the next generations of the Bangsamoro will continue the struggle until their liberation in their homeland will not achieved.”

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