Friday, September 25, 2015

MILF: Bangsamoro CSOs commemorate martial law

Posted to the MILF Website (Sep 25): Bangsamoro CSOs commemorate martial law

Bangsamoro CSOs commemorate martial law

About one thousand people gathered at Tantawan Park here in this city on September 21, to commemorate the declaration of martial law by the late President Ferdinand  E. Marcos on September 21, 1972.
  
Highlights of the rally were the symbolic stoning and burning of effigies of Senator Bongbong Marcos and Representative Celso Lobregat of Zambonga City.

Mahdie Amella, Chairman of Sulong Bangsamoro Movement (SBM) said “We are not just commemorating martial law but also to remind our brothers and sisters on the sufferings experienced by the Moro people during military rule of President Marcos that include arbitrary arrest and mass killings or massacres.”

“We don’t want oppression and discrimination under Marcos regime to happen again to us Bangsamoro”, he said.

“We will not allow Senator Marcos’ version of Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) enacted into law. We believe that the only solution is a BBL that conforms to the spirit of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB)”. Amella stressed.

Recalling his family’s experience during martial law, Duma Mascud, Vice Chairman of Mindanao Alliance for Peace (MAP) related what the Philippines Constabulary (PC) at Midsayap, Cotabato did to his father.

“We must not forget the massacres committed to the Moros by Marcos regime” , he stressed.

“We strongly oppose and condemn Bongbong’s version of BBL. I believe it will even worsen the situation of the Bangsamoro if his law is passed. Senator Marcos is obviously following the footsteps of his late father,” he added.

Survivors of the Manili massacre, Ummo Ismail, survivor of Tran massacre Abunawas Caludtiag and Maimona Barra shared their horrible experience under the military rule of the late dictator President Marcos.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/new/item/588-bangsamoro-csos-commemorate-martial-law

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