Mindanao Alliance for Peace

MANIFESTO OF THE

MINDANAO ALLIANCE FOR PEACE

June 22, 2008

The Mindanao Alliance for Peace (MAP), a broad alliance of civil society organizations, people’s organization and individual peace advocates in Mindanao, strongly believes that a negotiated political settlement is still the best way of resolving the age-old conflict in Mindanao .

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MILF not meddling in ARMM polls

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is keeping its hands off the coming elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM).

The Philippines’ largest Islamic separatist rebel group has ordered its forces to stay out of the elections. The campaign period has started for next month’s polls in the Muslim autonomous region in Mindanao in [...]

Pinol blames government for revived MILF

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would have been nothing but history after the fall of Buliok Complex in 2003, according to North Cotabato Vice Governor Manny Pinol.
But the Philippine Government allowed the  MILF to regroup and rebuild its forces, by allowing their return to their biggest base in Western Mindanao, said  Pinol. former governor [...]

Esperon: MILF-GRP pact on ancestral domain underway

Hermogenes Esperon, presidential adviser on the peace process and former Armed Forces chief, expressed optimism that a memorandum of agreement on the issue of ancestral domain will be signed by September between the government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Esperon made the pronouncement in a briefing with Mindanao stakeholders, including the media, Thursday [...]

Milf tells members to prepare for long struggle

The central leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has called on its members throughout Mindanao and Sulu to prepare for a long struggle for freedom and right of self determination of the Bangsamoro people.
Speaking for the MILF, Sheikh Muhammad Muntassir, chairperson of the Front’s Da’wah (Islamic call) Committee, told a gathering of both [...]

MILF wants speedy reply from GRP on ancestral domain issue

It took barely less than three days for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) to make its counter-proposal to the Philippine government’s three-point issues related to strand governance of the ancestral domain, which it, after three months and 23 days of legal study, submitted to the Malaysian government for trandsmittal to the MILF.
The MILF peace [...]

Davao natives win fight over ancestral domain rights

Matigsalogs forms council to manage ancestral domain
By ROGER M. BALANZA

The Matigsalog tribe of Marilog District in Davao City has formed a tribal council of elders to manage a 72,000-hectare ancestral domain recently carved out of a title issued to indigenous people of Kitaotao, Bukidnon.
Tribal leader Datu Ernisto Salumay said his tribe [...]

DAVAO REGION ON RED ALERT AS COMMUNIST REBELS INTENSIFY ATTACKS

NPAs intensify attacks;  3 killed , 14 wounded

By ROGER M. BALANZA

The military and police yesterday hoisted a red alert over Region Eleven as three people were killed and 13 others were wounded in a new wave of attacks by the communist New People’s Army rebels in the region in a span [...]

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

PHILIPPINES: Keeping of records regarding ‘vigilante’ killings has stopped but the killings go on
Slaughter of Innocents
http://noprotection.blog.humanrights.asia/
While this Statement is being written, more and more persons, including minors, have been targeted for murder on the pretext of ‘vigilante’ killings in cities of General Santos, Davao, Cagayan de Oro and Cebu. This is an insidious phenomenon [...]