A leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) today
urged Mindanao Moro leaders, particularly fellow MNLF to unite and support the
passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law.
”We will reap nothing if we keep disunited,” Uttoh Salem
Cutan, an MNLF leader from Southern Mindanao ,
said.
He said the BBL is not for single group only but for all the
sectors in Mindanao , including Christians and
Indigenous Peoples.
“Let’s give peace a chance,” Cutan, also former Executive
Director of the Southern Philippine Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD),
appealed.
“Rest assured, everybody will be part of the BBL,” Salem
He said the 1976 Tripoli Agreement and 1996 GPH-MNLF Peace
Agreement will be incorporated with the BBL.
The draft BBL which is now in Congress for deliberation is
hoped to be passed into law by June this year.
Peace Advocates and various groups from different sectors
have been urging the lawmakers to pass the BBL.
Cutan, which also currently serves as the vice-chair of the
Local Monitoring Team-Sarangani, noted the effort of the government to resolve
the Mindanao problem.
He urged other Moro leaders to heed to the call of the
Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for the unity of the Bangsamoro.
The OIC, an influential pan-Islamic body comprised of 57
member states which facilitated the GPH-MNLF peace process also hosts the
Bangsamoro Coordination Forum aimed to bring together the MNLF and MILF to discuss
issues and find common ground between the peace pacts they separately signed
with the government.
On Tuesday, more than 500 constituents of Sarangani and
nearby towns joined the peace forum organized by the Office of the Governor
through its Sulong Sarangani Program.
Government Chief Peace Negotiator Professor Miriam Coronel
Ferrer and Senen Bacani, GPH Panel Member, were the resource persons in the
peace forum.
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