CAMP DARAPANAN – Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) had met with members of Third Party Monitoring Team (TPMT) in Camp Darapanan, Sultan Kudarat Maguindanao on May 20, 2018.
This exchange of thoughts was happened in a recent courtesy visit rendered by the latter to the MILF administrative camp. Both parties were in the same position that Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), pending its approval by both lower and upper chambers of congress plays pivotal role in shaping the future social and political landscape of the region, or even the Philippine state as a whole.
MILF Chairman Al Haj Murad Ebrahim has his strong belief on the political will of President Rodrigo Duterte, who made an assurance that “there would be a Bangsamoro Government within his term.”
Along with Central Committee members Edward Guerra, Maestro Celis and Abu Huraira Udasan, Al Haj Murad, the highest ranking Moro Front chief holds firm on the statements of the president during their several exclusive meetings discussing the Bangsamoro issues of “historical injustices.”
The president has even deliberately declared his assurance on the passage of BBL at the end of May 2018 or else “I might just resign from the presidency,” Duterte said during the turnover of unlicensed firearms in Buluan, Maguindnao last April. That is the strongest statement that the Philippine head of state ever have made in support for proposed measure.
The TPMT group represented by Rahib Kudto, Karen Tañada, Huseyin Uroç and Sam Chittick had also able to share their own readings and projections on the BBL. They see the scrutiny by the two legislation houses might would appear tough on the opt-in provision of the proposed bill, even though they are working with the same version.
The BBL is the legal form to implement signed peace deal between Government of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (GPH-MILF), the comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro (CAB). A former form of BBL is about to be signed in 2015, in which a case of spoiled police operation in Mamasapano on January 25, 2015 has derailed it substantially.
Both the House of Representatives (HoR) and the Senate have adopted the New Bangsamoro Transition Commission (BTC) version of BBL as their reference to come up with a law that would repeal the current Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), into a new Bangsamoro Region, which has better features for the Bangsamoro people to exercise meaningful autonomy and to end the long standing struggle that has brought poverty and sufferings to many.
The two groups had also tackled challenging issues that may affect the bid to self-rule by the Bangsamoro, specifically during the conduct of plebiscites noting that extra efforts should be done to some identified that may vote against the new political entity establishment.
They were also bonded on a point of view that challenging it may appear, but at the end of the day, the six (6) municipalities in Lanao Del Norte and thirty-nine (39) barangays in North Cotabato, a Muslim dominated areas who voted for inclusion during the previous plebiscite – but their mother province voted no in the totality.
http://www.luwaran.com/news/article/1355/milf--tpmt-share-opinions-on-the-peace-process
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