Government (GPH) peace implementing panel head Irene Santiago said that they are now making early preparations for the decommissioning of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) combatants so that when the enabling law will be passed in Congress, “then the decommissioning moves fast.”
President Rodrigo Duterte (center) signs the Executive Order constituting the Bangsamoro Transition Commission with Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) chairman Al Haj Murad (second from right), Philippine government peace implementing panel chair Irene Santiago (extreme right), MILF peace panel chief Mohagher Iqbal (extreme left) and presidential adviser on the peace process Jesus Dureza (second from left) inside the Malacañang Palace. (JOHN JEROME GANZON | MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)
During the commemoration of the 2014 Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB) at a hotel in Davao City, Santiago said this is part of the normalization track as provided for in the CAB that both GPH and MILF peace implementing panels agreed, to undertake necessary measures for the transformation of the six previously acknowledged MILF camps – Abubakar-as-Siddique, Omar, Rajamuda, Badre, Bushra, and Bilal.
“It’s not going to be easy to have the decommissioning, for example, 9,000 combatants, if we prepare only then. We are ready preparing now. We have a plan for that,” she said.
An initial number of 145 Bangsamoro Islamic Armed Forces with a total of 75 firearms were decommissioned on June 16, 2015 at the old Maguindanao provincial capitol in Sultan Kudarat with then President Benigno S. Aquino III.
“We are, in fact, preparing a framework for the entire organization, so everything hands together. We are going from transition to transformation – transition, meaning all basic services that are needed by this deprived communities must be there and ensure that this will continue even after six years (of Duterte administration),” she said.
She said that there will be a turn-over of a “confidence-building” project in the fifth MILF camp on Monday (April 3).
Last March 7, 2017, the GPH, MILF, and representatives from the Mindanao Trust Fund turned over an 84-meter footbridge, two warehouses and solar dryers as part of the confidence-building measure of the Bangsamoro peace process to over 7,000 beneficiaries from Barangays Talitay and Rajamuda in Camp Rajamuda, Pikit, North Cotabato.
He said that they are implementing the recommendations of the Transitional Justice and Reconciliation Commission, one of which is the creation of a National Justice and Reconciliation on the Bangsamoro (NTJRB) who will “deal with the issues of historical injustice, human rights violations and land dispossession, issues that lie at the heart of this protracted conflict.”
She said the GPH and MILF implementing panels will ensure the NTJRB is constituted but “apart form that body we are also looking at what can happen in the communities that have several human rights violations that suffered so many things.”
“These are things we don’t have to wait, for the national body to work on. The whole process of normalization is very complex process. And so, different types of groups now working on the different components of normalization. That’s going on while this is going on,” she said.
http://news.mb.com.ph/2017/03/31/gph-milf-panels-make-early-preparation-for-decommissioning-of-milf-combatants/
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