The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) and the renegade Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) is considering a political alliance in their quest for Bangsamoro Independence, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) said Monday.
In its website, the MILF claimed that MNLF secretary general Ustadz Murshi Ebrahim was quoted as saying: “It’s possible to have a political alliance with (the) BIFF. Our forces are former comrades and we knew each other even before.”
The MILF also quoted Abu Misry Mama, BIFF spokesperson, as saying “it’s a very good development (an) alliance is very possible,” in response to Ebrahim's statement.
Quoting a source, the MILF said that during the 39th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting in Djibouti, Africa on November 15 to 17, 2012, MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari told Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Prof. Ekemelddin Ihsanoglu and other OIC top officials and in the presence of MILF leaders including Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim, that Omra Kato and the BIFF are “million times more important than the people here” (pointing to the MILF delegation).
An MILF source said their delegation did not react nor mention a single word "and let the sourgraping passed."
The MILF delegation was composed of Murad, lawyer Michael Mastura and Maulana Alonto, along with secretariat member Mohajirin Ali.
In that meeting, the OIC was trying to set up the formal architecture of the Bangsamoro Coordination Forum consisting of the MNLF factions and the MILF which will discuss and decide on major issues affecting the parties as well as ways and means to move the Bangsamoro agenda together.
The MNLF has three factions now with Muslimin Sema, chair of the bigger faction and the other is the Islamic Command Council.
The MILF said the Bangsamoro coordinating forum did not prosper because of the hardening position of Misuari, who always viewed unity that anchored on the MILF and other MNLF factions to return to the fold of the MNLF unconditionally.
http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=558668
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