The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has insisted the
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), Sulu Sultanate and Indigenous Peoples
were consulted on the draft Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) before it was finalized
and submitted to Malacanang.
In a statement posted on its website luwaran.com, the MILF
said those who claimed they were not consulted were not telling the truth.
“Such claim is ‘cheap and outright lies," the MILF
said.
“It is very unfortunate that there are so many so-called
political leaders and religious personalities, who can lie with heads high, as
if they are telling the truth,” it added.
The group maintained that the government, Bangsamoro
Transition Commission (BTC) which drafted the BBL, Civil Society Organizations,
Non-Government Organizations, MILF Committee on Information and Political
Committee and the Bangsamoro Leaderships and Management Institute (BLMI) have
conducted hundreds of consultation with various sectors in Mindanao .
It added the GPH alone has participated in about 553
consultations.
It explained that MNLF is made up of at least five factions
of the Nur Misuari-led group, MNLF Committee of 15 led by Chairman Muslimin
Sema, the MNLF faction chaired by Abulkhair Alonto, the MNLF-Islamic Command
Council spearheaded by Mujahab Hashim, and another MNLF sub-group anchored by
Alvarez Isnaji.
The MILF said what is more important was all these factions
radiate with the MILF through the Bangsamoro Coordination Forum (BCF) organized
by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The last meeting which witnessed the fraternal bond and
close coordination between and among these groups was held last May 28 where
MILF Chair Al Haj Murad Ebrahim addressed the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers
Conference in Kuwait
“On top of these, the OIC has endorsed the BBL as solution
to the Moro Question or Problem in Mindanao ,”
it said.
The MILF has a direct line of communication with Misuari
which was eventually cut after the Zamboanga siege in September 2013, the MILF
said.
Since Misuari has already reverted to the pursuit of
independence instead of autonomy, consultation was no longer necessary, the
group added.
“Likewise, the Sultanate of Sulu has nine claimants, some of
whom are supporting the peace process. Of these, only the faction led by the
late Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III has been intense in their opposition to the
BBL,” the MILF said.
For the IPs, the MILF said, the group was part of the
negotiations and in crafting of the BBL. The late B’laan lawyer Datu Antonio
Kinoc was an alternate member of the MILF Peace panel.
It said BTC have two IP representatives from the Teduray
tribe, Melanio Ulama and Froilyn Mendoza. Commissioner Ulama is also an MILF
Peace panel consultant on IP affairs.
“Notwithstanding this, consultations with the IPs were so
many, in all levels of engagements. As a matter of fact, the provisions on IPs
in the BBL were crafted by IPs themselves,” the MILF added.
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