COTABATO CITY – The Bangsamoro people once again come together to press one call – respect Bangsamoro people’s right to self-determination towards just and lasting peace in Mindanao, in a one-day Mindanao-wide mass rally spearheaded by Mindanao Alliance for Peace (MAP) here today.
The Suara Bangsamoro (Voice of the Bangsamoro) and the Liga ng Kabataang Moro (League of Moro Youth) unite with the entire Bangsamoro people on its quest for peace vis-à-vis resumption of peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).
Bai Ali Indayla, national secretary-general of Suara Bangsamoro, believes that the ‘present attitude of the Arroyo administration towards the GRP-MILF peace negotiation is a testament of insincerity in attending Bangsamoro’s welfare.’
“We support the peace negotiation but with the records of human rights violations and disrespect of the government towards signed agreements, there could be no true and genuine peace agreement that could be signed under the US-Arroyo regime,” Indayla said.
The groups also deem that while Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo still in power and with Gen. Hermogenes Esperon as the appointed ‘peace czar’, it is difficult for the Moro people to believe that the talks on Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) will resemble the Bangsamoro’s vision for a community free from imperialist plunder and warlord domination.
“Should the peace negotiation resume, we demand that Gen. Esperon be removed for he does not bring peace to the Bangsamoro. His records of human rights violations as one of the brains of series of all-out wars towards the Bangsamoro people will surely taint the spirit of peace in the negotiation,” Indayla said.
Further, the groups also challenge the government to stop declarations of all-out war in respect to the impasse of talks, pull-out AFP troops in Moro areas and stop terrorist-tagging to MILF and innocent Moro civilians.
“While we call for the resumption of peace talks, the Bangsamoro people could not afford to stay mum should the government betray once again, we will continue to fight against the attack of our civil and political rights and right to self-determination,” Indayla said. #
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