One of the
leaders of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) urged Moro leaders
particularly fellow MNLF to unite and support the passage of the Bangsamoro
Basic Law.
During
a peace forum in Sarangani Province on March 31, 2015, Uttoh Salem Cutan, an MNLF
leader from Southern Mindanao , said, “We will
reap nothing if we keep disunited.”
He said the
Bangsamoro Basic Law is not for single group only but for all the sectors in Mindanao including Christians and Indigenous Peoples.
“Let’s give
peace a chance,” Cutan, also former Executive Director of the Southern
Philippine Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD), further urged.
Cutan
added, “Rest assured, everybody will be part of the BBL.” He said the law will
also protect the peace agreement the MNLF signed with the government in 1996.
He said the
1976 Tripoli Agreement and 1996 GPH-MNLF Peace Agreement will be incorporated
with the BBL.
The measure
which is now in Congress for deliberation is hoped to be passed into law by
June this year.
Peace
Advocates and various groups from different sectors have been urging the
lawmakers to pass the BBL.
Cutan,
which also currently serves as the vice-chair of the Local Monitoring Team-
Sarangani, noted the effort of the government to resolve the Mindanao
problem.
He urged
other Moro leaders to heed to the call of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) for the unity of the Bangsamoro.
The OIC, an
influential pan-Islamic body comprised of 57 member states which facilitated
the GPH-MNLF peace process also hosts the Bangsamoro Coordination Forum aimed
to bring together the MNLF and MILF to discuss their issues and find common
ground between the peace pacts they separately signed with the
government.
More than
five hundred constituents of Sarangani and nearby towns joined the peace forum
organized by the Office of the Governor through its Sulong Sarangani Program.
Government
Chief Peace Negotiator Professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer and Senen Bacani, GPH
Panel Member, were the resource persons in the peace forum.
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