Contrary to what many may have believed innocently or otherwise, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will continue to exist even during or after the implementation of a Bangsamoro Government in the future Bangsamoro territory.
The MILF is a movement which has ideology and programs of action that it pursues through to the end. If however in the beginning it pursues its aims through armed struggle, but the moment the Government and the MILF finally sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, it will become a social movement that continues to pursue its aims through democratic means. And one way to promote and realize this is through the organization of a principled political party that would engage in elections.
This clarification comes in the heel of the tendency of some media practitioners to distort, deliberately or innocently, statements of people or in this instance, leaders of the MILF. A case in point is an article appearing in the October 20 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, bylined by Charlie Señase, after he interviewed Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace panel and Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), in Cotabato City last month.
“Bangsamoro will mean death knell for the MILF”, the title of the story, is a complete misquotation. “I could not imagine that such attribution can be made when the correct ideological and political lines on issues like this are in our fingertips,” Iqbal told Luwaran by phone.
The article continued its claim: “…the establishment of the entity would render the MILF insignificant, which was why the rebel group would be dissolved. The MILF is only good until 2016 because by the time the new Muslim Mindanao is installed, there should only be one group that would represent the Bangsamoro.”
Never in the wildest dream of real leaders can that such irresponsible statement come into their inner thoughts. Unimaginable! Similarly, we cannot believe that such a gross misquotation can be made at all especially by a veteran and respected journalist like Charlie Señase, who is a good friend of most of the senior leaders of the MILF.
For the sake of truth, good journalism, and friendship, we urge him to make the necessary correction. Soon not later, please!
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/editorial/item/633-milf-will-continue-to-exist
This clarification comes in the heel of the tendency of some media practitioners to distort, deliberately or innocently, statements of people or in this instance, leaders of the MILF. A case in point is an article appearing in the October 20 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, bylined by Charlie Señase, after he interviewed Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace panel and Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), in Cotabato City last month.
“Bangsamoro will mean death knell for the MILF”, the title of the story, is a complete misquotation. “I could not imagine that such attribution can be made when the correct ideological and political lines on issues like this are in our fingertips,” Iqbal told Luwaran by phone.
The article continued its claim: “…the establishment of the entity would render the MILF insignificant, which was why the rebel group would be dissolved. The MILF is only good until 2016 because by the time the new Muslim Mindanao is installed, there should only be one group that would represent the Bangsamoro.”
Never in the wildest dream of real leaders can that such irresponsible statement come into their inner thoughts. Unimaginable! Similarly, we cannot believe that such a gross misquotation can be made at all especially by a veteran and respected journalist like Charlie Señase, who is a good friend of most of the senior leaders of the MILF.
For the sake of truth, good journalism, and friendship, we urge him to make the necessary correction. Soon not later, please!
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/editorial/item/633-milf-will-continue-to-exist
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