Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Teresita
Deles said on Tuesday some lawmakers’ withdrawal of support to the proposed
Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) is equivalent to forsaking sacrifices in the past
and bars a good future for Mindanao .
In a statement, Deles said, “We understand the concerns of
some senators that led to their decision to withdraw support from the
Bangsamoro Basic Law.”
“But, we would like to issue an appeal for our leaders in
Congress and our people to continue supporting our work for peace,” she added.
This after Senators Alan Peter Cayetano and JV Ejercito
announced that they no longer support the proposed BBL after a violent
firefight between members of the Philippine National Police’s Special Action
Force (SAF) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) last Sunday.
The incident, which the Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) dubbed as a “misencounter,” left 44 SAF members dead.
The SAF members were assigned to capture Malaysian Zulkipli
bin Hir, a.k.a. Marwan, and Filipino Abdul Basit Usman, reportedly bomb experts
who are linked with the terror group Jemaah Islamiya and who are being hunted
by the United States
Deles said, “It is our duty not only to those who have
fallen in Mamasapano, but to all the lives which have been sacrificed over the
decades, and to the yet unborn generation of Filipinos to pursue justice and
peace.”
”To sacrifice both will be to jeopardize the future of our
nation and throw away what we have achieved over the years,” she said.
“Let us continue to find the way forward without losing
sight of our ultimate goal of bringing just, inclusive and enduring peace that
our people have been longing for and which our people -- especially our
children -– deserve,” she added.
The Aquino government has made progress in putting necessary
programs that promote peace and economic growth in the country’s second largest
island group.
This after representatives of the government and the Moro
Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed in March 2014 the Comprehensive
Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB) and submitted a draft Bangsamoro Basic Law
(BBL) to Congress last September.
The agreement is targeted to provide political stability and
economic growth in what is currently called the Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM), but will be called Autonomous Government of Bangsamoro once
the new political entity is in place in 2016.
Under the agreement, the government and the MILF will have
to share the revenues from the resource-rich region as well as on governmental
power in the area.
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