CAMP DARAPANAN, Maguindanao -- All roads lead
here as local and international peace advocates gather for the unveiling of a
peace monument built by a South Korean entity inside a government-recognized
camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) on Sunday.
This is in recognition of the group’s efforts to help attain
genuine peace in southern Philippines
Bobby Benito of the Mindanao Alliance for Peace (MAP) said
Al Haj Murad, MILF chieftain and the MILF leadership have lined up various
activities that will highlight the visit of Man Hee Lee of the Heavenly
Culture, World Peace and Restoration of Light and Nam Him Kim, chairperson of
the Seoul-based International Women’s Peace Group.
The two groups have been actively helping promote
inter-religious solidarity in Mindanao .
The two have been helping for a peaceful resolution of armed
conflict in Mindanao .
Kim and Lee and their entourage will arrive at Camp Darapanan
A veteran in the Korean war, Lee, now in his 80s, has told
reporters in previous visits here that his rich experience in fighting the
North Koreans encouraged him to focus on peace advocacy, not only in his home
country but around Southeast Asia .
“Regardless of their political, religious and cultural
affiliations, we all organizations who wanted to help us attain genuine peace
in Mindanao ," Mohaqher Iqbal, the MILF
chief negotiator with the Aquino government, said.
The activity, according to Benito, is dubbed as an MILF
peace summit.
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