Monday, July 21, 2014

MILF: Maranaws protest Israeli aggression in Gaza

From the MILF Website (Jul 21): Maranaws protest Israeli aggression in Gaza

 

"Bangsamoro is Gaza, Gaza is Bangsamoro." This is the emotional cry of more than a thousand Moro youth who staged an indignation rally on July 17, 2014  and stormed the central district of Marawi City,Southern part of Philippines to condemn what they describe as one of the Greatest Crime against Humanity being committed by ISRAEL against the Palestinian people of Gaza, Palestine.
  
Agakhan M. Sharief, Chairman of the Bangsamoro National Movement For Peace and development (BNMPD) and lead convener of the said March Protest slams ISRAEL for what he think as unfair and unjust offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza. "This is Genocide." he says, and "Cruel" as children, women and elderly are being targeted and the world leaders let this happen! "We let this happen", added by Sharief.
Israel's offensive in Gaza entered it's 10th Day today, has Killed 223 so far and injured more than a thousand. 80 percent of them were civilians including children according to a Gaza based Human Rights Group.

"We are marching for Gaza" says one placard. We will make every streets of Bangsamoro as our Gaza, we feel their pain, our hearts bleds for the innocent children and elderly killed in Gaza by Israeli Defense Force (IDF) says an emotional elderly woman protester who refused to be identified.

The protesters demanded for an immediate halt to Israel's offensive in Gaza.

The Bangsamoro is no stranger to oppression and occupation, they too suffered from colonial powers for over 4 centuries and they are still fighting for what they assert as their right to self-rule.

The protesters marched around the city and stopped at the famous “masjid” or mosques known as Islamic Center. They displayed the Israel's flag and laid on the road for every passers to step on it to show their disgust and anger. They later burned and melted the Israel's flag into ashes as they were chanting: "DOWN WITH ISRAEL!"

A closing prayer was offered before they peacefully dispersed.

http://www.luwaran.com/index.php/welcome/item/1097-maranaws-protest-israeli-aggression-in-gaza

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