Duterte admin trying to bring Misuari out of his hiding place – Dureza

From GMA News Online (Jul 28): Duterte admin trying to bring Misuari out of his hiding place – Dureza

The Duterte administration is now trying to bring Moro National Liberation Front founding chairman Nur Misuari out of his hiding place to participate in the peace roadmap, presidential peace adviser Jesus Dureza said Thursday.

“The effort is to bring him out of Indanan,” Dureza said during a news forum organized by the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.

But he clarified that they will follow the legal process in doing so.

“The warrant is out and he is considered a fugitive. Any effort to get him out have to go through the legal process, we cannot short cut. Whatever it will be, we will have to comply with the legal process,” he said.

Dureza said Misuari’s lawyers can have his case reviewed.

“It is for his lawyers to initiate reinvestigation of his case. If given due course, then you move for the lifting of the warrant of arrest.  There are other ways to do it,  we are not sure how we are going to do it now,” he said.

Misuari is the subject of a warrant of arrest issued in 2013 over the 20-day-long Zamboanga City siege, which led to the deaths of over 200 people and the displacement of thousands of others.

The issuance of arrest warrants came after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed rebellion charges and violation of the International Humanitarian Law against Misuari, MNLF commander Habier Malik and 60 others.

Dureza said Misuari will play an important role in the administration’s peace roadmap.
“He will play a vey important role because we cannot put close the agreement if he is left out,” he said.

The roadmap, which had been approved by Duterte, will require all Bangsamoro groups to unify under the Bangsamoro Transition Commission provided under the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.

The 15-member Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC). Eight of that members will come from the MILF and the rest will be from other Bangsamoro groups.

“We will task them first to work them out themselves. When they are able to come up with unity, they should go together and  draft another enabling law. That is the next best thing we can do,” Dureza said.

The new enabling law will not only cover the CAB, it will also include the Final Peace Agreement (FPA) with the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) signed in 1996 as well as the relevant provisions of the Republic Act 9054 or the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao Law and the Indigenous People's Rights Acts (IPRA).

Duterte and Misuari have already talked over the phone regarding the roadmap.

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