Friday, March 14, 2014

MILF: MILF Provincial Political Committee holds advocacy in Tulunan, North Cotabato

From the MILF Website (Mar 14): MILF Provincial Political Committee holds advocacy in Tulunan, North Cotabato

Damakling Provincial Committee held advocacy on the FAB and the Four Annexes at Tulunan, North Cotabato on March 9 where the program was held at Purok 7, Dungos in Tulunan town. It was jointly sponsored by local leaders in the barangay and leaders of the committee in the locality.
  
The primordial purpose of the advocacy was to enlighten the Moro and the non-Moro residents in the community pertaining to the progress of the GPH-MILF Peace Process. Approximately 300 local residents comprising men and women attended and listened attentively.

Prof. Esmael Abdula was the guest speaker. He delved on the peace process, the FAB and its four annexes.  Abdula is currently the Chairman of the Campaign and Mass Mobilization, Sub Committee on Information, Committee on Information and member of the Steering Committee of Bangsamoro Leadership and Management Institute (BLMI) at the same time the institute’s training officer. Those who graced the occasion were Hon. Datu Mando “Manny”  Pedtamanan, a third termer municipal councilor  of Kabacan, and now member of Peace and Order Committee of the Province of North Cotabato and the MILF Provincial Chairman of Damakling Provincial Committee,  the Provincial Director of Committee on Information-Damakling  Province, the Vice Chairman of MILF Provincial Political Committee of North Cotabato, North Cotabato Provincial Director of Committee on Information and Dir. Moidjoddin Talusob, Executive Director of Kalilintad Development Foundation Inc.

Prof. Abdula said, “History tells us that before, you in this barangay never experienced stable peace and tranquility and it only happened after the FAB was signed on October 15, 2012. Like you, the entire Bangsamoro People started to see the “light of hope”.

Participants after hearing Abdula’s statement shouted “Allahu Akbar”, “Allahu Akbar”, “Allahu Akbar”. Sigh of joy and overwhelming positive response were observed among the participants. What added to the pleasant atmosphere in the venue and the unhidden joy felt by the participants was when Prof. Abdula discussed and explained the FAB’s on Annex on Normalization. He recalled the suffering of the Moros in the past saying, “In the course of our struggle to regain our long lost freedom, the military of the previous regimes continued to attack us. Our communities were devastated and people were forced to abandon their ruined homes and many of them have not returned home since then. They are now in evacuation centers under miserable conditions with no potable water to drink and enough food to eat.  The women, the aged and children were the collateral damage and the most affected.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/879-milf-provincial-political-committee-holds-advocacy-in-tulunan-north-cotabato

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