The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in a statement posted as editorial of Luwaran.com, official website of the Moro Front on January 2, it said that “2015 is the year of reckoning vis-à-vis the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) and its fate is hanging in the balance”.
The Moro Front asked everyone to ‘watch how this year unfolds itself and how congress shapes the destiny of the proposed law’.
It also explained how the BBL passed through rigid scrutiny and rigorous process that involved not only the Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC), the GPH-MILF Peace Panels but also the Office of the President (OP) and the BTC-MILF to the extent that President Benigno Aquino III personally read the document.
President Aquino and MILF Chieftain Al Haj Murad Ebrahim also met at Malacañan Palace and threshed out the six (6) remaining unresolved issues which finally led to an “agreed version of the BBL”.
To this date, the MILF has never wavered in believing in the sincerity and commitment of the Aquino Administration to deliver what are contained in the modified and final version of the BBL.
That commitment has been made consistently and on almost countless occasions. Specifically, the commitment was and still is: “We will not sign an agreement that we cannot implement”.
“The MILF consistently maintains that the Moro Question or Problem, which the two Parties agreed to solve right at the outset of their peace negotiation in 1997, cannot be addressed through the confines of the current Constitution, which is too restrictive and shallow.
Besides, the issue is not a legal question but political in nature; hence, the BTC is also mandated to proposed amendments to the Constitution to ensure that the agenda of the talks will be fully settled’.
The MILF believes that Congress, the Supreme Court, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP), the business community, the Church, and everybody are one with the government in establishing peace in Mindanao. They want a genuine peaceful settlement of this armed conflict. They want a peaceful and progressive Philippines.
“The key to this bright future is for Congress to pass a good BBL. The BBL is not an ordinary legislation. The BBL, as noted above, was crafted by the BTC and had passed through multi-layered engagements with the letter and spirit of the FAB and CAB taken into full account. These two historic documents did not come so easily; they came into being after 17 long years of harsh and prolonged negotiations, interspersed with three major wars and almost countless number of bloody confrontations between government and MILF forces”, the MILF said.
The Moro Front appeals for the unqualified support for the passage of a good BBL in Congress saying the passage of BBL is good for everybody, not only for the Bangsamoro people, but also for all inhabitants of Mindanao and this country. It is also good for business and the international community.
http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1439-fate-of-bbl-hanging-in-the-balance-milf
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