MILF: MILF criticizes former President Arroyo’s Bangsamoro bill, considers it as ‘foolish’

Posted to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front Website (Aug 25): MILF criticizes former President Arroyo’s Bangsamoro bill, considers it as ‘foolish’

An online report posted today (Aug. 25) by the Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) says that the Moro Islamic Liberation front (MILF) have criticized the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) proposed by former President and Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and considered it as ‘foolish’.
It was “disgusting in all aspects” and ran counter to the “spirit” of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro (FAB) and the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB), the MILF also said as quoted by PDI.

The FAB was signed by and between the GPH and MILF Peace Negotiating Panels in 2012, while the CAB was signed in 2014. Both reflected the right to self-determination espoused by the Bangsamoro people.

“By signing these agreements [FAB and CAB], it is an obligation of government to enact the BBL as a way (of complying) with its obligation contained in these agreements,” the MILF said in its editorial posted on Luwaran.com.

http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/975/milf-criticizes-former-president-arroyo---s-bangsamoro-bill--considers-it-as----foolish---

Arroyo filed Babar or House Bill No. 6121 last week, a few days before the draft BBL was transmitted by Malacañang to Congress.

The MILF said Arroyo should not have filed the bill as it “clearly favors special groups of people, and more seriously, rescinds a moral obligation contained in [the] agreement that it entered into with, including those with MILF and MNLF”. (Source: PDI)