The Moro National Liberation Front and the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters over the weekend broached the possibility of forming a “political alliance” in their quest for Bangsamoro independence.
Reports said that MNLF secretary general Ustadz Murshi Ebrahim said, “It’s possible to have a political alliance with (the) BIFF. Our forces are former comrades and we knew each other even before.” Similarly, BIFF spokesman Abu Misry Mama, responding to Ebrahim’s statement, said: “It’s a very good development (an) alliance is very possible.”
A well-placed source from the MILF told Luwaran that during the 39th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting in Djibouti, Africa on November 15 to 17, 2012 MNLF Chairman told Secretary General Prof. Ekemelddin Ihsanoglu of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other OIC top officials, 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.
The source said the MILF delegation did not munch a word and let the sour-graping passed.
Aside from Murad, the MILF delegation also included Michael Mastura and Maulana Alonto, along with secretariat member Mohajirin Ali.
During 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.
But the meeting 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.
Ihsanoglu attended the signing of the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro in Malacañang on October 15.
Misuari and Kato met in November 2011 in Maguindanao to discuss possible common ground on which their forces could cooperate. Misuari emerged from the meeting praising Kato and the BIFF.
Days after the meeting, however, Kato fell seriously ill and he has not been seen or heard publicly since. But a very reliable source told Luwaran that he is still alive but cannot practically talk.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/515-mnlf-biff-to-formalize-alliance-soon?
A well-placed source from the MILF told Luwaran that during the 39th Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) meeting in Djibouti, Africa on November 15 to 17, 2012 MNLF Chairman told Secretary General Prof. Ekemelddin Ihsanoglu of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and other OIC top officials, 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.
The source said the MILF delegation did not munch a word and let the sour-graping passed.
Aside from Murad, the MILF delegation also included Michael Mastura and Maulana Alonto, along with secretariat member Mohajirin Ali.
During 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.
But the meeting 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.
Ihsanoglu attended the signing of the GPH-MILF Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro in Malacañang on October 15.
Misuari and Kato met in November 2011 in Maguindanao to discuss possible common ground on which their forces could cooperate. Misuari emerged from the meeting praising Kato and the BIFF.
Days after the meeting, however, Kato fell seriously ill and he has not been seen or heard publicly since. But a very reliable source told Luwaran that he is still alive but cannot practically talk.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/515-mnlf-biff-to-formalize-alliance-soon?
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