MNLF Chairman Alonto calls on Muslim brothers, sisters especially the Misuari faction to support CAB as they abandon the four-decades old war

From the Philippine News Agency (Apr 11): MNLF Chairman Alonto calls on Muslim brothers, sisters especially the Misuari faction to support CAB as they abandon the four-decades old war

The chairman of the Moro National Liberation Front on Friday calls on his Muslim brothers who are having second thoughts on the signed Comprehensive Agreement for Bangsamoro (CAB) to join them push for peace and ending the four decades-old war in Mindanao.

Ambassador Datu Abul Khayr Alonto, Chairman of Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), said disgruntled Misuari faction should not have a second thought of joining them to this journey by putting a closure to the nonsense Mindanao war which have prove no winners.

“We like to call on all our MNLF brothers and sisters, in whatever breakaway group they may be, particularly in the Misuari faction and the Arroyo administration-sponsored Committee of 15 to stand in unity with the dominant and recognized, reconsolidated and revitalized MNLF at this crucial juncture of our history as a people,” Alonto told reporters at the weekly forum, Balitaan sa Hotel Rembrandt.

According to Alonto, “whatever mistakes were committed along the way, be they real or perceived, which will have its own due process, be taken as part of the long but seemingly endless journey.”

“We all have rendered sacrifice and service to the Bangsamoro dream. To quote from the wise, a Saint has a past and a Sinner has a future,” Alonto noted.

He said this declaration is a testimony of the solidarity of the veterans of the Mindanao war, the Bangsamoro Army and the original MNLF Central Committee which stayed put and fought in Mindanao and our people who believed and supported the Bangsamoro cause.

“Our body may no longer be as youthful, but just as we have given up our personal aspirations in life in the spring time of our youth, which to us is the best years of our lives but to some Brothers their last, for our oppressed people, the liberation of our homeland and the restoration of our freedom, sovereignty and independence, all for the pleasure of Allah, so we are ready to rededicate the sunset of our years to the fruition of the Bangsamoro dream . . after all there are only two alternatives left for us, victory and martyrdom,” Alonto emphasized.

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