A ceasefire may clear the path to peace talks between the Philippine government and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), but the political aspects of the conflict for peace to reign in troubled Mindanao.
Without these political aspects resolved, there will be no end to the fighting, said Muhammad Ameen, chairperson of the MILF Secretariat, [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Dads wants AMCOR to start nickel mining project
The City Council of Mati City in Davao Oriental has passed a resolution favorably supporting the start of mining operations for the Pujada Nickel Project in Barangay Macambol after the local mining group severed relations with the Australina mining firm Asiaticus Management Corporation (AMCOR).
In their 16th Regular Session last [...]
Thousands of members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) are in Davao City for a two-day summit today and Peace Caravan that would take off tomorrow.
The MNLF forces from all over Mindanao started to arrive here Thursday night. Dabawenyos, used to seeing heavily-armed elements of Task Force Davao on street patrol, were mildy amused at the sight of unarmed elements [...]
AFP, PNP to send more forces to ComVal
By ROGER M. BALANZA
The police and military are sending additional forces to Compostela Valley province, as communist rebels intensify their attacks on government personnel.
Provincial Police chief Ronald de la Rosa said he has asked Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame for an additional police battalion [...]
AS COMMUNIST REBELS FREE CAPTIVE TROOPERS
New People’s Army communist rebels picked up the choice word “infantile” to describe the commander of one of the Army battalions spearheading the anti-insurgency campaign in Southern Mindanao, in wake of another military officer who likened the NPA to a mentally-retarded.
“Contrary to [...]
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