"The Zamboanga siege that has lasted ten days is obviously rooted in the decades-old Muslim insurgency. It was worsened by President Aquino’s flawed approach to end Muslim separatism, since it involved only one half of the Moro people, the Maguindanaoans, who dominate the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Completely left out is the other half of the Moros, the Tausugs who make up most of the Moro National Liberation Front led by Nur Misuari. The MNLF’s wrath arises from its view that it has either been ignored or put under the MILF, and that the Philippine government threw to the dustbin the internationally-sanctioned Tripoli Agreement of 1976, which recognized the Misuari-led organization as the Moros’ sole representative, a victory paid for by the blood of their people." "Former MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu pointed out that the MNLF indeed was left out in the Aquino government’s negotiations. He proposed a peace plan that would create two autonomous regions for Muslims: One in central Mindanao that is dominated by the Maguindanaons and the other to consist of Sulu and Basilan, the Tausug’s territory. After all, he pointed out, in the pre-Hispanic period (and even today in its ghostly form though), there was a Sultanate of Maguindanao and a Sultanate of Sulu, which reflects the existence and separation of two Muslim nations."
Posted on: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 01:10:15 +0000
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