The government will continue to push for the passage of the
Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) despite plan to file charges against 26 Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) fighters in connection with the Mamasapano incident,
Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigal Valte said Friday.
”So as far as the President is concerned, he will keep
pushing for BBL.,” Valte said in a media briefing.
”The President has always said as much because we feel that
this is one of the best chances to give our brothers and sisters in Mindanao a
sustainable peace that we all want for them and for us as well,” she added.
Last Thursday, President Benigno Aquino III announced that
90 individuals from the MILF, the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters and
private armed groups or PAG will be indicted for killing 44 Special Action
Force (SAF) troopers.
Of the 44 slain SAF troopers, thirty-five were members of
the 55th Special Action Company that went to the lair of Oplan Exodus’ main
target Malaysian international terrorist Zulkifli bin Hir alias Marwan and
Filipino bomb expert Abdul Basit Usman.
Marwan, a prime suspect in the bloody 2002 Bali
bombings, was killed in the operation but 35 of the 36 members of the 55th SAF
unit were also killed by the combined forces of the MILF, BIFF and PAGs.
In his televised nation address, President Aquino declared
that it was the SAF troopers that killed Marwan, describing the floated
‘alternative version’ as baseless.
The President vowed to give justice for the 35 and the other
SAF troopers killed in the mission carried out last mission last January 25 in
Mamasapano, Maguindanao.
At present, both the Senate and the House of Representatives
are tackling the proposed BBL, a codification of the two agreements – Framework
Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro
(CAB) signed between the MILF and the Philippines
If signed into law, the BBL will lead to the creation of the
Bangasamoro political entity that will replace the existing Autonomous Region
of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).
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