The government peace panel and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have formed the independent transitional commission as part of the normalization annex of the Bangsamoro Framework Agreement.
In a statement issued Tuesday night, the Swiss Embassy in Manila said the parties announced the formation of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) at the meeting on the implementation of the Normalization Annex of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), held in Kuala Lumpur from Saturday to Monday.
Switzerland was tapped to head the said commission, the embassy said. Mo Bleeker, special envoy of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, will serve as its chair.
Cecilia Jimenez Damary of the Philippine government and Ishak Mastura of the MILF were named members of the commission, with Swiss FDFA's Jonathan Sisson as special adviser.
An independent unit, the TJRC is tasked to "undertake a study and recommend to the Panels the appropriate mechanisms to address legitimate grievances of the Bangsamoro people, correct historical injustices, and address human rights violations and marginalization through land dispossession, towards healing and reconciliation."
The commission will be given one year to submit to the panel chairs its report, which must include recommended programs and measures for the reconciliation of communities affected by the conflict.
The Swiss Embassy said the commission will be going to Cotabato on Saturday for its first official public meeting. It will have a formal launch in Manila on October 11.
The TJRC is one of the mechanics within the Normalization Annex, which deals with decommissioning the armed wing of the MILF and outlines steps to disarm private armies in the proposed Bangsamoro area.
The last of the four annexes to the Framework Agreement, it was signed by the parties last January, during talks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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