Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process (OPAPP) Sec.
Teresita Deles has assured recommendations made by the Transitional Justice and
Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) to forward the Bangsamoro peace process will
be operationalized.
The recommendations were included in a report launched to
the public on March 15 in Cotabato
City
During the launch, Deles said Executive Secretary Paquito
Ochoa, Jr. issued a memorandum of instructions to OPAPP to put in motion the
recommendations in the report.
The TJRC conducted various consultations across the country
on what would be an important component to promote healing and reconciliation
among the communities affected by the decades-long armed conflict in Mindanao .
Deles outlined concrete actions on how the TJRC report could
be implemented.
“We will seek at the earliest possible time to draw up
Memoranda of Agreements to institutionalize the partnership along these
different tasks with selected government agencies,” she said.
The government agencies are the National Commission on
Muslim Filipinos (NCMF); the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP);
the Department of Education (DepEd); the National Historical Commission (NHC);
the Claims Board for Human Rights Victims of Martial Law; the Autonomous Region
in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) regional government; and the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Deles said that those agencies “have already initiated
relevant processes and reforms on which the work of truth-telling,
memorialization, redress, and reconciliation can build.”
“As well, we will try to expand our efforts by tapping the
expertise and knowledge base of the academic community and civil society,” she
added.
Despite setbacks, Deles called on everyone "not to give
up" on the peace process.
“This Bangsamoro opportunity is one we ignore at our own
peril. And we take heart in seeing that the parties in this peace process are
not ignoring this opportunity and are in fact doing all they can to make sure
we take it and make the most of it. Despite setbacks and difficulties along the
way, no one is backing out. No one is giving up—not the MILF, not the
government. And we ask you not to give up as well,” Deles said.
The TJRC finished drafting its report in December 2015 and
subsequently submitted to the Philippine government (GPH) and the Moro Islamic
Liberation Front (MILF) negotiating panels during their meeting in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia
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