MILF sees violation of ceasefire accord
By Edwin Fernandez
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front believes the ceasefire agreement between it and the government was violated during Monday’s skirmishes involving private armed groups and government forces.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front believes the ceasefire agreement between it and the government was violated during Monday’s skirmishes involving private armed groups and government forces.
The government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have finally agreed on a detailed roadmap for setting up the Bangsamoro autonomous political entity by 2016.
The acting governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao has signed into law a regional legislative bill that is aimed at fast-tracking the registration of children— and adults— in the region as well as facilitating the registration of new births in an area that paid scant attention to this matter in the past.
Some 150 motorized boats, decked in colorful decor seen only in Moro areas and carrying about 2,000 people, will greet President Benigno Aquino when he visits the city on his way to the main camp of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in nearby Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao on Monday.
While they have yet to craft the final peace agreement, Mohagher Iqbal won’t stop Marvic Leonen from joining the Supreme Court.
The disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of Moro Islamic Liberation Front guerrillas could become a bottleneck in the events leading up to the final peace agreement but it is one of the most important steps for peace, British Ambassador Stephen Lillie said.
The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process on Tuesday said that an ad hoc interagency team on the “normalization” provision within the framework agreement recently signed by the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation began its work Monday.
The chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front tried to assure Nur Misuari on Thursday that the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro is even better than the deal he signed in 1996 with the administration of then President Fidel Ramos.
The chief negotiator of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front tried to assure Nur Misuari on Thursday that the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro is even better than the deal he signed in 1996 with the administration of then President Fidel Ramos.
To ensure peace seeps down to the grassroots, Christians, Muslims, and lumad (indigenous people) in Mindanao who were unjustly dispossessed of their land will be compensated under the new autonomous Bangsamoro homeland, according to chief government peace negotiator Marvic Leonen.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front urged the government on Tuesday to postpone the regional elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao until after the conclusion of the ongoing peace talks and the signing of a peace agreement.
A regional military commander with jurisdiction over Central Mindanao is seeking a revalidation of reports by aid agencies that up to 70,864 people had been displaced by a flare-up of violence in Maguindanao last month.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front forces clashed with former comrades in Maguindanao on Tuesday but there has been no report of casualties on either side, the police reported Thursday.
