“There has to be a Bangsamoro Nation,” said President Rodrigo R. Duterte while serving as Davao City Mayor.
It
should be recalled that President Duterte while still Davao City mayor already
strongly advocated for a federal government set-up for the war-wracked and
corrupt-ridden Philippines. He knew that only federalism could institute a
clean government and solve comprehensively the decades-long Filipino-Moro war
in Mindanao and the AFP-NDF/NPA war throughout
the whole nation.
In
achieving just and lasting Mindanao peace, he advised the Aquino government not
to ignore the capability of Chairman Prof. Nur Misuari of the Moro National
Liberation Front (MNLF) to help forge peace in Mindanao .
He pointed out that the MNLF chairman has a key role in ensuring peace in
war-torn Mindanao .
In
As
overwhelmingly elected president of the Philippines
with the highest percentage of electorate approval in the May 9 polls, he has
immediately called for the immunity of the MNLF chairman in order to sincerely
talk about Mindanao peace.
It
is noted that the Aquino administration totally rejected the MNLF-OIC-GRP September
2, 1996 Jakarta Peace Agreements in favor of Malaysia-brokered Bangsamoro Basic
Law (BBL). Nonetheless, the Aquino government at the end of the day undermined
BBL’s implementation by designing the Mamapasano invasion to court popular
protest against the BBL that led to its natural death in the Philippine
Congress.
The
rejection by the Aquino government of the 1996 peace agreement contributed a
major factor for the MNLF leadership to revert back to its original objective
of pursuing independence and national self-determination for the
Filipino-colonized Bangsamoro people.
The
MNLF proceeded to establish the United Federated States of Bangsamoro Republik
(UFSBR) and adopted Davao
City Davao Zamboanga
City
Until
today, there are still a big number of civilian Muslim evacuees living in
refugee tents after the burning of around “10,600 houses, mosques and madrasa
learning centers” in six villages by Philippine military occupation soldiers
during the September, 2013 AFP-MNLF war.
In
pursuit of colonial interest to justify injustice, genocide war and obvious
oppressive crime against humanity, the Aquino government filed
America-introduced rebellion charges against the MNLF freedom fighters,
principally Chairman Nur Misuari and Ustaj Khaber Malik. The Aquino regime
thought that the threat of trial court, impending arrest and imprisonment could
silence and halt the militant liberation struggle of the Bangsamoro freedom
fighters against Philippine colonialism.
In
his radio program while mayor of Davao City mayor, President Rodrigo Duterte
reiterated his loud call to the anti-peace Aquino government not to forget MNLF
Chairman Nur Misuari in the search for Mindanao peace. He emphasized the
existing reality that, “for all his faults, Misuari is still a man to reckon
with. Forget the Zamboanga incident (September, 2016 AFP-MNLF war) for a while,
we have to talk with him if you want peace.”
On
this light, Chairman Abdulaziz Olamit of the Davao State Revolutionary
Committee (DSRC) and Acting Vice-Chairman of the Central Committee of the Moro
National Liberation Front (MNLF) has openly called today on President Rodrigo
R. Duterte to fulfill his promise of establishing a Bangsamoro Nation within
the spirit of the MNLF-OIC-GRP Jakarta Peace Agreements of September 2, 1996.
The
1996 peace agreement was forged by the Philippine government and MNLF under
President Fidel V. Ramos, who issued a presidential decree creating the
13-province and 9-city Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development
(SPCPD). The political move was executed in order to comprehensively solve the Mindanao war. But the succeeding Estrada and Arroyo
government totally ignored the good-will political solution and both decided to
craft and implement the farcical 5-province Autonomous Region in Muslim
Mindanao (ARMM).
However,
the creation of the 4-province ARMM by President Corazon C. Aquino in 1987 and
its 5-province upgrade in 2001 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did not end
the Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao . The
betrayal of Mindanao peace by Philippine colonialism under the Marcos, Aquino
and Arroyo regime only exposed the colonial mentality of Luzon-based political
leaders to adopt military solution in solving the Philippines-Bangsamoro war in
Filipino-occupied Mindanao to no avail.
Today,
with the sound and bites of the May 9, 2016 national election over to erase
forever the ghost of the present “daang matuwid” Aquino government, the
triumphant President Rodrigo R. Duterte from so-called “Land
of Promise ” Mindanao
has taken center stage as the 16th President of Philippine Republic.
Thus,
on a hypothetical note, is the incoming Duterte government a portentous
political whirlwind of change that finally will bring peace to Luzon, Visayas
and Mindanao that previous Luzon-based
presidents only promised and trumpeted, but never delivered?
COMPLETE
REPUDIATION FOR THE ANTI-PEACE AQUINO GOVERNMENT
What
of the betrayal of Mindanao peace by the
present Aquino government? It cannot be denied that the Aquino regime designed
the controversial Mamapasano invasion to presumably neutralized one “Malaysian
terrorist” in the midst of the on-going ‘peace process’. The supposedly
clandestine military operation led to the death of 44 PNP policemen and several
MILF members as well as innocent Muslim civilians. Consequently, it also
resulted to the “killing” of BBL (Bangsamoro Basic Law) and its eventual burial
in the halls of Philippine Congress?
Deceptively
from the beginning the anti-peace Aquino government was never serious of
achieving “just and lasting peace” in war-torn Mindanao
and anywhere else in the country. It only used the high tone of peace in a
grandiose propaganda in highlighting the “daang matuwid” program. But it never
succeeded to end the 2-front Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao
and AFP-NDF/NPA war throughout the whole region.
Similar
to the other Luzon-based colonialist leaders before him, President Benigno S.
Aquino III could not abandon but patronize still the stark injustice inflicted
upon the Muslim and Lumad natives of Mindanao
by the Manuel L. Quezon-led Philippine Commonwealth government in 1935.
In
the darkest side of Philippine and Bangsamoro history, it was the 1935 Quezon Commonwealth Mindanao , Sulu and Palawan (MINSUPALA).
Subsequently,
the colonial nightmare continued with the immoral and illegal incorporation of
the Bangsamoro homeland into America-created Philippine Republic on July 4,
1946. Clearly, this injustice driven by political and economic greed of
the previous unscrupulous Filipino leaders has contemporarily brought about the
decades-long Philippines-Bangsamoro war in Asia .
In
modern history, unfortunately but deliberately, Luzon-based colonialist leaders,
like President FEMarcos, CCAquino and GMArroyo, have only become blind and deaf
to the loudest cry of suffering, misery and agony of the colonized Mindanao
Tri-People (Lumad, Muslim and Christian). Instead, they only adopted the
deceptive colonial policy of divide.rule.destroy and accommodation.cooptation
and used only the so-called ‘peace process’ methodology in perpetuating
Philippine colonialism in the Bangsamoro homeland of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan .
Similar to the Spanish, American and Japanese invaders in the past, the Luzon-based Christian Filipino slavers today have utilized colonization as a lethal weapon to perpetuate per se the colonial slavery of the Muslim and Animist Lumad natives as well as conscious Christian settlers of
On
this end, the present but outgoing Aquino government is no different. It tried
to bamboozle the Filipino and Bangsamoro communities with “daang matuwid”
deodorant propaganda. Yet, the window dressing was only based on false peace
promise coupled with massive corruption and spoils of pork barrel system in the
4-branch government and other Malacanang-made societal ailments.
Thus,
it was seen that the May 9, 2016 election was also a national referendum for
the 6-year performance of outgoing President Benigno S Aquino III, who for the
4th time betrayed Mindanao peace. Before him, Mindanao peace was betrayed by Luzon-based Filipino
colonialist warmongers, like former Presidents Ferdinand E Marcos, Corazon C
Aquino and Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. They all chose to continue the
Filipino-Moro war in Mindanao rather than establishing Mindanao
peace.
In
the final analysis, now under Mindanawon President Rodrio R. Duterte, is Mindanao peace probable and peace throughout the Filipino
nation possible? Is it possible for the Duterte government to change the ugly
image of the Filipino nation that is today looked upon by foreign observers as
“most corrupt” country and “sick man of Asia ”?
Indeed,
the Filipino and Bangsamoro communities have always prayed, hoped and
anticipated genuine change and clean government coming. Now, by a stroke of
historical reality the phenomenon that is the rising Duterte government is
given the political opportunity to make a difference. So be it!
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