In response to the recommendations of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TCRJ) for the government to address grievances and correct historical injustices committed against the Bangsamoro people, the Office of the Executive Secretary directed the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process to convene and coordinate with agencies to work towards the adoption and implementation of the TJRC recommendations.
The Executive Secretary further directed Deles to encourage and initiate activities towards the mainstreaming and popularization of the framework for transitional justice and reconciliation.
The Normalization Annex of the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro which the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front signed in 2014 provides the creation of the TJRC.
TJRC is mandated to conduct study and make recommendations with the view to promote healing and reconciliation of the different communities that have been affected by armed conflict in Mindanao.
The Commission, conducted “listening process” sessions in more than 210 Moro, Indigenous peoples and settler communities in Mindanao and island provinces.
Respondents of the study included people engaged in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, human rights practitioners, community and religious leaders, academics, experts in Mindanao and Bangsamoro studies, history and culture, public servants and representatives from security and private sectors.
The TCRJ study came with the conclusion that there were “legitimate grievances” of the Bangsamoro people that were political, economic, social and cultural in nature during decades and there were “historical injustices” committed by the colonial governments of Spanish, American and Japanese as well as the Philippine Government.
It further concluded there were human rights violations committed against the Bangsamoro people through extrajudicial killings, rape, arbitrary arrest, and torture before, during and after Martial law era.
The study has also found out also that there was “land dispossession of the Moro and indigenous peoples” through enforced privatization and titling, government-led settlement and enforced colonization through land laws.
TJRC report was made public at Cotabato City on March 15 and in Manila on March 16 this year.
The body is composed of Ms. Mo Beeker, Special Envoy of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs as the chairperson, GPH delegate Atty. Cecilia Jimenez, MILF delegate Atty.
Ishak Matura, GPH alternate delegate Atty. Mohammed Al-Amin Julkipli, MILF alternate delegate Atty. Rusty Kalim, Senior Adviser Jonathan Sisson of the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and Senior Gender Adviser Dr. Ma. Lourdes Veneracion-Ralonza.
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