Moro people in Mindanao, the country’s local Muslims, continue to seek “acceptance and peace with our fellowmen.”
Muslimin G. Sema, chairman of a big group of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) made this statement as he cited another milestone with the “unified declaration” signed by his group and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Tuesday at Camp Darapanan, Crossing Simuary, Sultan Kudarat, Maguindanao.
In his speech after the signing, Sema said the declaration was “one of the building blocks of permanent peace in our homeland.”
“Today, we are here in this great hall right in the heart of a truly MNLF enclave, Darapanan, and we claim, once again as we did before, that we are Moros in search of acceptance and peace with our fellowmen,” he said.
He hailed the signing as a fulfillment of the “Bangsamoro people’s desire for the MNLF and MILF to unite and pursue the promises of the 1976 Tripoli Agreement, the 1996 Final Peace Agreement, and the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB).”
At the same time, the MNLF leader warned that “there will be no peace, not even a semblance of it” if either of the two peace tracks of the Mindanao peace process remained “hanging on the balance.”
These are the tripartite review process of the FPA and CAB.
According to him, the two-page unified declaration constituted their call on the Bangsamoro people and all Filipinos to support the call for peace of President Aquino and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
They also pushed for the passage of a Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) without being watered down.
Sema said both peace tracks must bear fruit with the two agreements “implemented fully, wholly, and faithfully, with high regard to their solemn objectives, the establishment of truly autonomous Bangsamoro Government, and the Moro people’s common aspiration for peace.”
http://www.mb.com.ph/mnlf-leader-hails-accord-with-milf-as-start-of-permanent-peace-in-mindanao/
“Today, we are here in this great hall right in the heart of a truly MNLF enclave, Darapanan, and we claim, once again as we did before, that we are Moros in search of acceptance and peace with our fellowmen,” he said.
At the same time, the MNLF leader warned that “there will be no peace, not even a semblance of it” if either of the two peace tracks of the Mindanao peace process remained “hanging on the balance.”
According to him, the two-page unified declaration constituted their call on the Bangsamoro people and all Filipinos to support the call for peace of President Aquino and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
Sema said both peace tracks must bear fruit with the two agreements “implemented fully, wholly, and faithfully, with high regard to their solemn objectives, the establishment of truly autonomous Bangsamoro Government, and the Moro people’s common aspiration for peace.”
http://www.mb.com.ph/mnlf-leader-hails-accord-with-milf-as-start-of-permanent-peace-in-mindanao/
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